Quotes from Sam Kinison

I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid.

My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn't scare the F- out of everybody!

I have lived a carnal life.

I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.