Jack Dee Quotes

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Jack Dee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 24, 1962

Topics

AttitudeGreatPerformanceTopJokes

Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.

Jim Harrison

LifeTimeMindIdeasGoldStart

I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago's Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.

Joel Grey

FatherTimeJobManChicagoSame

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Joel Siegel

NiceRealMovieProducers

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

John Harwood

FinanceInfluenceElectionEmbrace

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

John Desmond Bernal

ResearchIndependenceLossDoneTwo

Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider's thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.

John Edgar Wideman

FlyPerformanceThinkingSpiderWeb

Centrism is bogus.

Robert Reich

Bogus

A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.

Robert J. Waldinger

MarriageHealthSmokingCigarette

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

Jeff Sessions

LifeSayWillNationClearlyAgain

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

HeartTimeYouBackNeverAsking

Remember the first rule of gunfighting... 'have a gun.'

Jeff Cooper

GunRememberFirstRule

It was never an option to not succeed.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

SucceedNeverOption

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