Quotes from Jim Breuer

I know I'm not a rock star.

You can't judge people for what you see for two seconds.

Most of the time I write visually. I get a visual of me in the audience watching the concert. I usually come up with the hooks first. Like with 'Old School.'

I wanted to travel and I was fascinated with stand-up and I just knew nothing was ever going to stop me from doing it. My mom tried to, she'd say 'You need to go to school and have a back up.' Nah, mom, this is it.

I'm not going to make fun of something that has badly traumatized someone's life.

Vulnerability, humility, relatability - those three are very close and very similar to keep you going.

I met Jack Nicholson, who lived up to his persona, and when we met, he lifted the sunglasses he was wearing at 2 in the morning, and giggling, he told me, 'You look the way I feel all the time.'

Twenty years is what it takes to become a marriage warrior.

So I started as a comic at 18 and got really into it by the time I was 21, 22, so I was on the road a lot. I lived everything I needed to live like a rock star.

There's not a lot of comics with anything to say. It's entertaining, but when you think of Chris Rock, Richard Pryor or Bill Cosby, they all had something to say.

I'm still blue collar in my heart. It comes from strong Long Island family roots.

I've been around comedians that try their bits around you. I hate that.

There's a confusion of what I do. Are you the rock guy? Are you the family guy? Who are you? I'm the people's entertainer.

Laughter is what connects pretty much all pain.

I think the premises of my comedy are Cosby-esque, but I don't come out with a sweater. I come out with a Metallica shirt.

My whole family is extremely blue collar - teachers and police officers probably make up half my family. My father was a garbage man.

Hannibal Buress keeps popping up. His delivery cracks me up. He's smart and funny.

There's nothing more powerful than stand-up. Crushing with your own material, with your own energy, controlling an audience: There's no better high. It's awesome.

No matter what happens in the future, I still want to be like Carlin, like Dangerfield where I can hit a stage when I'm 85 and still here people cracking up.

You'll very rarely hear me curse now. I think I've changed since I've had children.

I'm a huge fan of Giuliani, as a person. Down-to-earth, talks to you like a human.

Annie Lennox is tremendous live. What a presence.

Kids are like roosters, up at the first sign of dawn.

I'm clean but I'm not Disney.