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Lenny Bruce
15 quotes
“You can't put tits and ass on the marquee!...Why not?...Because it's dirty and vulgar, that's why not!... Titties are dirty and vulgar?...Okay, we'll compromise. How about Latin? Gluteus maximus, pectoralis majors nightly...That's alright, that's clean, class with ass, I'll buy it...Clean to you, schmuck, but dirty to the Latins!”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In The Carnegie Hall Concert (1961)
“The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In John Cohen, Essential Lenny Bruce (1970), p. 59
“I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Richard Neville, Play Power (London: Paladin, 1971 [1970]), p. 111
“I want to perform an unnatural act.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lenny as the Lone Ranger, in Thank You Mask Man (1971)
“A Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as a descendant from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary, but you and I know what a Jew is: One Who Killed Our Lord... there should be a statute of limitations for that crime.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lenny Bruce Without Tears (1972)
“I was arrested for using a ten-letter word that began with ‘c,’ and I would marry no woman who was not one.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Peter McWilliams in Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do (1996)
“If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
“I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
“Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)
“If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New York pardons late Lenny Bruce", BBC News (December 23, 2003)
“Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fuck (2005)
“Life is a four-letter word.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Stephen Robb, "The comedy master turned martyr", BBC News (August 3, 2006)
“Are there any niggers here tonight? Could you turn on the house lights, please, and could the waiters and waitresses just stop serving, just for a second? And turn off this spot. Now what did he say? "Are there any niggers here tonight?" I know there's one nigger, because I see him back there working. Let's see, there's two niggers. And between those two niggers sits a kike. And there's another kike— that's two kikes and three niggers. And there's a spic. Right? Hmm? There's another spic. Ooh, there's a wop; there's a polack; and, oh, a couple of greaseballs. And there's three lace-curtain Irish micks. And there's one, hip, thick, hunky, funky, boogie. Boogie boogie. Mm-hmm. I got three kikes here, do I hear five kikes? I got five kikes, do I hear six spics, I got six spics, do I hear seven niggers? I got seven niggers. Sold American. I pass with seven niggers, six spics, five micks, four kikes, three guineas, and one wop. Well, I was just trying to make a point, and that is that it's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. Dig: if President Kennedy would just go on television, and say, "I would like to introduce you to all the niggers in my cabinet," and if he'd just say "nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger" to every nigger he saw, "boogie boogie boogie boogie boogie," "nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger" 'til nigger didn't mean anything anymore, then you could never make some six-year-old black kid cry because somebody called him a nigger at school.”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)