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Steven Wright Quotes

To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

Steven Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: December 6, 1955

Topics

Me Song Know Audience Everything

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

Joanna Garcia

Mind Worry Dark I Can Always Afraid

When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.

Joe Wright

Life Myself College World My Life

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

Joel Hodgson

Down Serious Say Try Talk They Say

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

Robert Mugabe

Look Policy West Being Started Us

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

Roger Mahony

Nature Political Two United Changed

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

Lou Barletta

Service People City Small Budget

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

Dino De Laurentiis

Love World Evening Friends You Go

It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I think London - not to sound pretentious - like New York, it's a big melting pot for all things and it's just got this energy that you can't find anywhere else.

Christian Cooke

New York Stupid Building Energy You

I took piano lessons and dancing lessons. I was very good at piano.

Cloris Leachman

Good Dancing Piano Lessons Very

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley

Wisdom Soul Gold World Better Lose

I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.

Ashton Sanders

Men People Black Feel See Tell

The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.

Shashi Tharoor

Power Reflection American America