Jerry Seinfeld's Quotes
Born: 1955-04-29
Profession: Comedian
Nation: American
Biography of Jerry Seinfeld
I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.
Tags: Married, Single, TellThe greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.
Tags: Fun, Greatest, TalkWhen someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
Tags: Small, Someone, WholeThere's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'
Tags: Advice, Men, WomenI like definitive things.
Tags: DefinitiveIf you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.
Tags: Bad, Hours, MovieOnce you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.
Tags: Death, Once, StartPay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.
Tags: Attention, Life, LoveStand-up is hard.
Tags: HardThe first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
Tags: Car, Real, ThoughtThe truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.
Tags: Terrifying, Truth, WantedWe sold 'Seinfeld' all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it.
Tags: Countries, Others, ShowWell, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.
Tags: Bother, Impression, SternYou can be passionate about anything.
Tags: PassionateThe Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
Tags: Friends, Fun, LaughThe Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.
Tags: End, Loved, OffI wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.
Tags: Proud, She, WriteWell, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.
Tags: Anger, Good, WorkA two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
Tags: Blender, Funny, TopYou know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
Tags: Birthday, Getting, OldIt's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Tags: Amazing, Funny, HappensVisit partners pages
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I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
Tags: Busy, Forces, IdeaTo me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
Tags: Keep, Life, MovingBeing a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
Tags: Good, Husband, YourselfNow they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.
Tags: Pretty, Problem, ShowThat's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Tags: Spirit, TrueWhere lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
Tags: Accept, End, GodA bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Tags: Evidence, Pieces, ThinkingYou have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.
Tags: Alive, Challenges, YourselfMake no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.
Tags: Here, Mistake, WhyI don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu.
Tags: Hear, Put, SpecialI think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.
Tags: Delicate, Explosive, FunnyI won't do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can't, it's not gonna make the team.
Tags: Good, Team, ThreeMy parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
Tags: Law, Move, ParentsWhen I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.
Tags: Business, Off, RidiculousMarriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Tags: Game, Marriage, Water