Marc Maron Quotes

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don’t pop. You know why they don’t pop? They don’t pop because they have integrity.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit ‘comedians’ and create very cheap television programming.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine – 100s of words a day.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer’s ego you were probably working for him all along.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

It’s easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn’t seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.