David Spade Quotes & Sayings

#1. I can see getting married and having a family, because it is the next thing on the agenda. You can only do this for so long. I'm old, and my friends all have kids. And I'm single, still blow drying my hair!

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#2. It's so crazy in Hollywood.

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#3. There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

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#4. Seriously, you don't have to know English. It'd be nice, a nice little plus. We don't want miracles. You don't have to know the country's language. But just some shapes, that's all. A square. A little geometry.

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#5. I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.

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#6. I want to get away from it all. Move to the sticks. Montana. Hundreds of miles from civilization. Get a cabin in the snow. Curl up with some cute girl. Say stuff to her like, Scream all you want, sugar. Ain't nobody gonna hear you!

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#7. You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

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#8. It's good to do stand-up. It kind of wakes you up and makes you feel like you're doing something. You got the crowd right there. That's all fun.

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#9. Now that I have the opportunities to do a lot, I want to do less.

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#10. It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

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#11. Nobody wants to read about your life. Who cares?

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#12. I talk to my dad all the time, he's more like my buddy than my father, and he's not happy that I use him in my act. But I tell him, I have to get something out of this.

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#13. To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

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#14. I started doing the star turn and making a profit off it. Now I'm kind of one of them.

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#15. It's hard for your mom to tell you she has an oral fixation and has to have something in her mouth. My step dad is in the kitchen winking at me. You down with OPP, yeah you know me. Exciting is and a special ... What? Easy, and why do you know all the words? That's weird.

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#16. I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

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#17. There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.

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#18. I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

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#19. People come and go around you, but you're never the one getting the big stuff. I like that.

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#20. My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

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#21. You know, you want to pull in a wide audience.

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#22. No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.

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#23. MySpace is a great way to keep in touch with friends who you don't care enough about to actually have a conversation with, why bother calling to say "how are you," when you can just surf their page and post an mpeg of a guy farting on his cat.

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#24. I changed my act because I wasn't getting booked.

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#25. Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

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#26. FYI, this book is not that serious. This is meant to be read when super bored, then forgotten fifteen minutes later. It could be read cover-to-cover during one medium-to-severe case of diarrhea.

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#27. When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

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#28. It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.

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#29. When my stepfather died, I just kind of fell apart. I felt pretty vulnerable, like there literally could be no tomorrow.

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#30. I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

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#31. Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

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#32. It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

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#33. There's always something funny about men chasing women.

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#34. As boys get older, they can't let on that it's cool to meet me.

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#35. When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

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#36. Don't make your kids look hot and dirty and sexy when they're 5-years old! It's really not the place or the time. You're about 11 years early.

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#37. I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

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#38. I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

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#39. I wish I had that carefree lifestyle. But I guess I'm more private, and more inside.

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#40. My career is just kind of crazy.

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#41. Horrible date all through high school and college. Here's an impression of me on a date in high school. Come on, chug it!

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#42. It wasn't a cutdown to call someone a Mexican. It would kill my career to refer to someone as Mexican today. It's like calling me an American.

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#43. With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show.

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#44. If I try to cover too much ground, you start to get watered down and less interesting.

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#45. My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

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#46. My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

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#47. It's funny because it's funny.

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#48. Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good.

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#49. It's hard to have a career.

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#50. Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

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#51. Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.

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#52. I have two skateboards, but I don't get to use them much. I have a snowboard, which I've never used.

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#53. Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'

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#54. The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.

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#55. I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

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#56. Spent most of the summer looking for shade. Driving around. Shade. Please? Driving in malls. I'll park a mile away I don't care. I'm just looking for a tree branch, anything. Long weed. Big leaf, get the front corner panel under it. Oh precious shade, I have it - you don't!

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#57. I never dated much in high school or college.

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#58. I don't like throwing myself in a place that's going to rock my world.

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#59. Bill Murray I always liked. I'm not as good as him, but there's a quality in him that I like. And then there's DeNiro, I'll never be that.

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#60. I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

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#61. You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

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#62. How do you lay low but still do your job? Try to stay out there without being out there like Jenny McCarthy?

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#63. Sometimes when I watch a TV season, your favorite shows die quickly. And then sometimes it's not your favorite, and they live on for 12 years.

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#64. I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right.

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#65. To be famous and broke is hard.

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#66. Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

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#67. Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

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#68. On Sundays, I lay low, sulk a lot, and try to get my head together for next week.

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#69. I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.

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#70. It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.

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