Sam Kinison quotes:

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

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.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

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?

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

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.

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.

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, "It's a shame that he has to die." And Jesus is saying, "Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

I have lived a carnal life.

I'd rather entertain people than offend them.

I look for women I know are gonna bust me up good. Come on, man, who can resist that? Who can resist that emotional pain? Yeah, they all have the same line, they're so sweet: I'm not gonna hurt you like all the others. Really I'm not. I'm gonna introduce you to a whole new level of pain!

Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.

With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'

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!

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

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

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

Ive never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

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

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

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock n roll and ex-wives. In that order.

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

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

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.

You know what the problem is with world hunger? We've been sending them food.

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

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

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

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

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

I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

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

So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.

Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.

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

Everything can be satirized.

How does a guy look at another guy's hairy ass, and find love?

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 have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!' I don't have to go through the thing of paying for it in the next life. I know I'm screwed in the next life.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

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

John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.

Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like "aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.

Rock Against Drugs, what a name. Somebody was high when they came up with that title. It's like Christians Against Christ. Rock created drugs.

The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG!

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.

What happened? Satan was busy?

You gotta keep falling in love. You gotta believe in it. What are you going to do... give sheep the vote?