Top 40 Jerrod Carmichael Quotes

#1. The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

George Henry Lewes

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#2. Broadcast television is designed to reach as many people as possible, right? There's an obligation that we as creators have to advertisers, and it is an advertising medium.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#3. Performing for Dick Van Dyke once was fun.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#4. To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#5. I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#6. All I really wanted was to try to live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so difficult?

Hermann Hesse

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#7. I didn't choose to like Chik-Fil-A - I was born this way.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#8. You know, 'Cheers,' you didn't have to leave the bar because what they were saying in the bar was important. 'All In The Family' is the same rule. On 'The Golden Girls' they didn't have to leave the table. And 'Friends' - the coffee shop. You can contain it if it's interesting.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#9. The biggest thing that I get most excited about is, my family and I would watch television together, and we weren't just passive viewers. Something would happen, and then we would talk about it. When Will Smith was shot on 'Fresh Prince,' that sparked a conversation about safety.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#10. I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#11. I look at Seinfeld - he looks like he's having fun. He's just enjoying being Jerry Seinfeld, you know, on 'Seinfeld.'

Jerrod Carmichael

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#12. I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

Wole Soyinka

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#13. I'm inspired by people who are unapologetically themselves, from Bill Cosby to Fahim Anwar. Just funny people.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#14. I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#15. If you've ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won't allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#16. Being very, very honest, I've watched more Bill Clinton speeches than stand-up specials. Steve Jobs commencements. They're just great orators. I love people who boldly share their point of view.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#17. I've laughed hysterically, just trying to hold it in, at every funeral I've been to, because everyone's so serious. And there are a lot of people speaking publicly, which makes you understand why it's people's number one fear - because everyone shouldn't do it.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#18. The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.

Simon Bolivar

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#19. I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more devoted to their documentarian. The vibes are really positive, and I feel so lucky.

Lena Dunham

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#20. Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.

Lenny Kravitz

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#21. You are a mystery I promise I will never try to solve.

Andrea Gibson

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#22. I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go ... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#23. As a standup performer, I'm onstage, and it's important how the audience is looking at me. I'm looking at whether they're leaning forward or not, those types of things. You read an energy. And it's the same thing in a scene with other actors.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#24. When you see U2 or the Rolling Stones, after years of knowing each other, they don't have to look at each other to connect.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#25. On a pure entertainment level, if I'm going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it's going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide!

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#26. Love in the Afterlife [10w]
Maybe I'll love you in the afterlife.
This life, fuhgeddaboudit.

Beryl Dov

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#27. I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#28. L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#29. If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#30. As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#31. I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#32. I don't like the idea of being a human being, existing, talking to my friends, and having these real human conversations, and then getting to work on a sitcom and turning that part of my brain off.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#33. I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.

Pamela Yates

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#34. I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#35. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Honore De Balzac

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#36. Eddie Murphy did '48 Hrs.' because that was the only movie offered to him. And he killed it. Bill Cosby did 'I Spy' because that was the TV show he was offered. But now, there are networks dedicated to comedy, and the Internet ... it's so easy for comedians to not do things that aren't true to them.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#37. When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#38. That could be made into a sad song, Simon supposed. 'If they are eggs, why are they gray? Who can say, who can say?'
Admittedly, "Why Are the Eggs So Gray?" might not be a big hit, even on the hipster circuit.

Cassandra Clare

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#39. I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.

Jerrod Carmichael

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#40. Compassion is the key to a successful relationship because by means of compassion we can access the innermost needs of the other. When we are aware of those needs, we can begin to communicate and not just profess what we think we know and demand that others change because we want them to.

Sharon Gannon

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