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Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.

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Colin Quinn
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 6
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Colin Edward Quinn
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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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I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.
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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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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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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 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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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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I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.
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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write
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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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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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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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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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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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