Top 100 Lenny Quotes

#1. I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #804
#2. I can think back to being four or five and not wanting to sit at the kids' table because I thought it was demeaning. I was this ridiculous little kid.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #8402
#3. I want to perform an unnatural act.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #8732
#4. We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #9500
#5. I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.

Roger Federer

Lenny Quotes #13141
#6. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.

Richard Lewis

Lenny Quotes #31466
#7. I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #46816
#8. For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #53180
#9. If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #58741
#10. Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #62687
#11. You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #64225
#12. For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #70196
#13. Life is a four-letter word.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #70977
#14. There's a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on these groups or the labels so you'd gather [there] and it would be like a library. - Lenny Kaye quoted

Gary Calamar

Lenny Quotes #77224
#15. Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #87233
#16. Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

Lawrence Jackson

Lenny Quotes #89935
#17. Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Dorothy Kilgallen

Lenny Quotes #95722
#18. I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #97232
#19. I'm sure at one point I will do some acting again, but it would have to be the right thing. I'm not going to do it just because people are offering it to me. Not for those box-office, bullshit, money, noncreative people. But I'll do it when it's right to do it.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #98073
#20. I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #100631
#21. I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #101146
#22. The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #117004
#23. Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

Phil Ochs

Lenny Quotes #118682
#24. I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #125239
#25. If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #129645
#26. My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #130154
#27. (On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #142693
#28. Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #148752
#29. I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #159684
#30. The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

Lenny Henry

Lenny Quotes #174815
#31. It's very important to have a good relationship with the crew and cast because you want to get the best out of them. They'll work really hard for you if they like you.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #176278
#32. I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #187278
#33. When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'

Bob Newhart

Lenny Quotes #191266
#34. 'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #192544
#35. There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #192860
#36. You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #195113
#37. Never tell. Not if you love your wife ... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do ...

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #196169
#38. The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Lenny Wilkens

Lenny Quotes #197791
#39. That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #207527
#40. Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #208364
#41. A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #208416
#42. There was a golden era in film-making in Hollywood back in the 1970s, and although there is some great independent film-making in America, it's actually very hard to get independent films made in the United States. It's much more feasible from Europe.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #209354
#43. Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #210184
#44. Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener.

Nancy Pearl

Lenny Quotes #210828
#45. You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #215217
#46. Lenny London: In case you're wondering, running is like driving only there's more sweating and less sitting. I don't recommend trying it if you haven't already.

Julie Cross

Lenny Quotes #216210
#47. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #217020
#48. You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #217965
#49. I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #226499
#50. The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #232290
#51. I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #232946
#52. Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #233469
#53. I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #234091
#54. She was Bloomingdale's, not Victoria Secret. She was vanilla, not peach. She was Paul Reiser, not Lenny Bruce. This was not my kind of chick.

Christopher Paul Meyer

Lenny Quotes #234104
#55. Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #240880
#56. I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #244728
#57. I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #244789
#58. I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #246578
#59. Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.

Angela Bassett

Lenny Quotes #249404
#60. If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #249561
#61. The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr ... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.

Jerry Stahl

Lenny Quotes #254370
#62. If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #260141
#63. I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

Rachel Zucker

Lenny Quotes #262439
#64. We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #266137
#65. People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #266530
#66. I was a bachelor for a long time, and I got into all these really lazy habits work-wise. I'd just work as long as I wanted into the night. There was no structure.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #276065
#67. Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #278479
#68. I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

Lenny Wilkens

Lenny Quotes #285436
#69. The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #296322
#70. Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #311452
#71. Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].

Alicia Keys

Lenny Quotes #312972
#72. I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #313694
#73. I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.

Lenny Dykstra

Lenny Quotes #317228
#74. Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

Bernard Goldberg

Lenny Quotes #321185
#75. Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #330124
#76. Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #339722
#77. There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #350702
#78. I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #352735
#79. The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #360720
#80. When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #362615
#81. God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #371034
#82. There are more ways to make 'Room' badly than well.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #371727
#83. I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

Penn Jillette

Lenny Quotes #371848
#84. On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.

David Dobkin

Lenny Quotes #374445
#85. I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #381417
#86. I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #382138
#87. I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #393892
#88. One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #395068
#89. Did you hear something?"
"No."
"Did I hear something?"
" ... I don't know ...

Matt Groening

Lenny Quotes #395324
#90. When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

Paul Mooney

Lenny Quotes #397236
#91. I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #397873
#92. It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #398358
#93. I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #405576
#94. Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #415733
#95. I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #418940
#96. If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #420515
#97. There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

Lenny Bruce

Lenny Quotes #425002
#98. Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #427719
#99. I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.

Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Quotes #428793
#100. I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'

Lenny Abrahamson

Lenny Quotes #432335

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