American - Comedian | October 16, 1956 -
I will say that I wasn't susceptible to Tony Robbins-like pitches, even as a younger man.
Andy Kindler
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If I love a comic but they have an off night, who am I to say they should have taken out this or added that? It doesn't work that way... I have no interest in hurting people's feelings.
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I don't hate Dane Cook, but I am trying to go after people I think are capable of more.
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I'm not trying to do anything except entertain America.
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The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.
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I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.
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Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.
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My manager came up with the name 'State of the Industry,' and it was just one of those things. It just took off. Well, I don't know about 'took off.' I'm not in the stratosphere.
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My goal isn't to wake up in the morning and hurt people's feelings.
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I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It's such a tricky thing; you don't want to make rules about it. There's nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he'd break every rule you set up. But he's funny.
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I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.
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I'm on a mission. If I can make even one person not enjoy something they're currently enjoying, it's all worth it!
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