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The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

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Colin Quinn
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 6
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Colin Edward Quinn
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I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.
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I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.
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I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.
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People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.
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Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.
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You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.
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A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.
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Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.
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I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.
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That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.
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So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
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I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
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I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.
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You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.
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Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.
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I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
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New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the bloody 1971 revolt at Attica prison. The settlement will be paid in the form of chocolate bars and packs of Newports that can be picked up in the commissary.
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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write
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My name has zero value.
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