Kinison Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Sam Kinison

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. — Sam Kinison

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

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

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. — Sam Kinison

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

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

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

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. — Sam Kinison

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

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. — Sam Kinison

Nobody's good. I hate it. I truly hate it. I mean, there's a lot of guys doing stuff I admire, but stand-up-wise I feel very alone. I really miss Bill Hicks. I wish I could have put him on my show. And I really miss Sam Kinison a lot. Richard Pryor's sick ... It's like you get here and then, oh wait a minute, there's nobody here any more. I feel like the guy who finally got into Studio 54, three years too late, Duh, where are all the famous people? — Chris Rock

I'd rather entertain people than offend them. — Sam Kinison

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! — Sam Kinison

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

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. — Sam Kinison

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

Everything can be satirized. — Sam Kinison

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. — Sam Kinison

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. — Sam Kinison

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. — Sam Kinison

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

I'm attracted to heartbreakers. — Sam Kinison

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

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy. — Sam Kinison

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

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

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say. — Sam Kinison

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

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

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

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. — Sam Kinison

I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated. — Bobby Lee

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

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? — Sam Kinison

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

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! — Sam Kinison

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!! — Sam Kinison

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. — Sam Kinison

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. — Sam Kinison

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

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

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

I have lived a carnal life. — Sam Kinison

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! — Sam Kinison

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

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

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either. — Artie Lange

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

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

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause. — Sam Kinison

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

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

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. — Sam Kinison

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry. — Sam Kinison

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

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