Darrell Hammond Quotes

• I don’t know if I want to be a big star though.

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• I’ll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

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• I’ve learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

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• I’ve seen the hell these people go through.

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• I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

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• I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

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• Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

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• I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

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• I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

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• Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

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• I called my mother up and I said, ‘You know, I’ve been to the best doctors in the world and I’ve spent almost half a million dollars and they’re telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.’

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• I’m not a doctor – so I can’t describe flashbacks well – but it is like you’re living it again.

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• If you’re injured, it changes the way you move. If you’re injured, it changes the way you talk.

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• If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I’ll take it.

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• Doctors didn’t know what to do with me.

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• When I left my parents’ home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn’t have what I needed there.

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  Tags in Parents

• I belong to the Democratic Party.

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• I had a dad you know.

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• College kids, don’t be taking examples from me.

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• I’m not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

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Darrell Hammond (26)

Birth:	8th October, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Impressionist

About

Darrell Clayton Hammond was born in Melbourne, Florida. He is an American actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. He was a regular member of "The Not Ready For Prime Time Players Company" on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2009, the longest tenure of any cast member in the show's history. He made more SNL appearances than any other cast member and impersonated more than 107 celebrities, with Bill Clinton as his most frequent impression. In May 2015, he began portraying Colonel Sanders in television commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken, although he was replaced by Norm Macdonald, also a former SNL cast member, just three months later. He graduated in 1978 with a degree in advertising and a 2.1 GPA.

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