Bill Cosby Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• Old is always fifteen years from now.

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  Funny, Birthday, Humor

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

• Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

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  Education, Sex, Believe

• Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

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  Funny, Humor, Civilization

• Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

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  Family, Parenting, Justice

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2009

• Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

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  Communication, Sisterhood, Men

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

• I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

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  Funny, Humor, Race

• Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

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  Children, Giving, House

• My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

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  Hypocrisy, Getting Older, Age

  "Bill Cosby: 49". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1987.

• Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

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  Cute Life, Long Distance, Firsts

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

• I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

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  Funny, Humor, Personality

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1983.

• I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.

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  Communication, Eye, People

• Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!

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  Funny, Humor, Kids

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

• The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

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  Essence, Play, Childhood

  Twitter post from Nov 11, 2009

• That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

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  Marriage, Valentines Day, Cute Relationship

• Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

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  Funny, Humor, Men

• My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

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  Family, Children, Parenting

• Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution.

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  Two, People, Laughing

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