Michael Anthony Richards Quotes

• When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you’re flying by the seat of your pants – particularly when they’re rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

  Michael Anthony Richards

• There’s a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

  Michael Anthony Richards

• There’s a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.

  Michael Anthony Richards

• It’s strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

  Michael Anthony Richards

• I’m really busted up over this and I’m very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites – everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

  Michael Anthony Richards

• I’m not a racist, that’s what so insane about this, and yet it’s said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that’s here as I confront myself.

  Michael Anthony Richards

• I’m a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it’s spontaneous, I go into character.

  Michael Anthony Richards

• I’ll get to the force field of this hostility, why it’s there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it’s between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

  Michael Anthony Richards

• I lost my temper on stage.

  Michael Anthony Richards

• I don’t know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don’t know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

  Michael Anthony Richards

Michael Anthony Richards (10)

Birth:	24th July, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Television Producer, Writer

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