Hecklers Quotes

• I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

  Paul Daniels

  Art, Form

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• I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage

  Michael Richards

  Country, Couple, Force Fields

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• I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

  Billy Connolly

  Tickets, Different, Gone

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• Humor heals the heckler.

  Gerald C. Meyers

  Heal

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• I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat [would-be hecklers] to the punch.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Would Be, Way, Beats

  "When Studios Need a Doofus, Jim Gaffigan Is Their Main Man". Austin American-Statesman, February 18, 2007.

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• You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

  Seth

  Marketing, Stage, Audience

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• There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

  John Oliver

  Two, Kind, Constructive

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, tv.avclub.com. April 7, 2011.

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• I always find a couple of hecklers... I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Couple, Looks, Ems

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• When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Giving, Joy, Teeth

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

  Phyllis Diller

  Timing, Appointments, Precise

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

  David Lloyd George

  Justice, Waiting, Political

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• [To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Speaking Up, Wife, Poison

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• I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.

  Burl Ives

  Couple, Night, Daddy

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• I just stopped liking basketball. And then you dribbling down the court and having the owner like cuss at you and call you an idiot. I didn't even look forward to coming to the games, and if the owner [Donald Sterling] came to the game, I definitely was not gonna have a good game because it was just like, how do you play when the main heckler in the gym is the owner of the team, and he's telling you how much he hates you and calling out your name?

  Baron Davis

  Basketball, Team, Hate

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Baron Davis". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. March 4, 2012.

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• There's two types of hecklers. If someone says something really funny it's normally them heckling as part of the show. They're trying to add onto one of your jokes. If someone says something really funny, I've never seen a comedian abuse them, you always sort of tip your hat a little bit if they nail it.

  Jim Jefferies

  Two, Abuse, Comedian

  Source: manofmany.com

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• I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Years, People

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• There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.

  Jo Brand

  Hate, Thinking, Would Be

  "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

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• If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.

  Godfrey

  Giving, Mad, Comedian

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• In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.

  Don Rickles

  Hockey, People, Fans

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Thinking, People, Crowds

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• I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.

  Godfrey

  Wise, Nice, Men

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• Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?

  Godfrey

  Done, Want, Comedy

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• On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.

  Dane Cook

  Comedian

  "INTERVIEW: Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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