Quotes from Jim Norton

I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we have become a nation of emasculated children whose only defense against an abyss of emotional agony is a trigger warning.

I like Fox, but I also like Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon.

Obviously I'm 100-percent for freedom of expression.

I know I'm funny, and I like to be in front of people, and the fact that I'm good at that. It's the one thing that gave me self-esteem.

With 'Mouthful of Shame,' all of my fans or the majority of them said it's the best thing you've ever done and that meant a lot because as you go on with time, if they're still really enjoying it, that means you're getting better.

I don't worry about the crowds agreeing with me anymore. I want them to laugh and have a good time, but I think they can disagree with you and still enjoy it.

I love doing the radio, and it's different every day. But stand-up is just you and the immediate reaction of the audience. So I love both.

Comedians want honest discussion because it affects us. We make our living talking, so anything around language affects us greatly.

I always wore a hat. They were gonna throw me out of high school because I wouldn't take my hat off. But it was just a deep insecurity about my awful hair.

Here's the rule of thumb: When the entire family looks like the unibomber, they're against gay marriage.

The only time the press doesn't sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

I got a GED when I was 21 and it doesn't mean anything to me now. I'm still a high school dropout and I like the fact that I've had a good life without that.

I have exposed so much of my own real life. Like I feel like I always try to be honest and I always try to talk about where I am at and what I want.

My instinct is to be honest and make fun of things.

The image people have of comedians staring defiantly over a stationary line of good taste is simply inaccurate. We don't approach this line, put our toes over it arrogantly and then scamper back to safety. The line doesn't exist.

Regular people are the problem. It's not the government, it's not the invasive Big Brother, it's the fact that we're a nation of snitches and nosey people who then cry when somebody wants our personal information. I'm talking about people who are being voyeuristic to people's privacy.

Everyone has a reason why their particular sacred cow is the sacred cow to be honored.

Lenny Bruce did clean TV. You have to be able to do that, I think, to succeed because if you want to promote something, you go on 'The Tonight Show' or 'Letterman' or whatever, you can't be dirty.

I have cowlicks, so my hair has always been a source of torture for me.

Trevor Noah is a great, relevant young comic, and Comedy Central is smart to stand by him.

It's really the old question: Does art inspire life or does life inspire art? Maybe it's a combination of both. But Trump represented something. He didn't create what we are. He comes from what we are. And he's a representative of what we are, whether we like it or not. He's just not our better nature.

I once had a therapist fall asleep on me. That really wrecks your self-esteem.

My job is to express who I am and what I hate about the country and what I love about it and what I hate about myself and what I love about myself and to make you laugh while I'm doing it.

Wherever I go, there is definitely my audience. I would say in some places there's more of them than others, but it's one advantage to performing for a long time and building up kind of a reputation with a certain crowd.