I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven’t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‚The Tonight Show.‘ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can’t predict what people will laugh at.

Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

I learned from the guys before me – Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I’m asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.