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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#9. If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
Lenny Bruce
#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
#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
#12. For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.
Lenny Abrahamson
#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
#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
#17. Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.
Dorothy Kilgallen
#18. I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
Lenny Kravitz
#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
#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
#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
#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
#23. Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.
Phil Ochs
#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
#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
#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
#27. (On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
Lenny Bruce
#28. Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.
Lenny Kravitz
#29. I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.
Lenny Abrahamson
#30. The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera
Lenny Henry
#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
#32. I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.
Lenny Bruce
#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
#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
#35. There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
Lenny Kravitz
#36. You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
Lenny Kravitz
#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
#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
#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
#40. Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.
Lenny Bruce
#41. A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.
Lenny Abrahamson
#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
#43. Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
Lenny Abrahamson
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#53. I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
Lenny Kravitz
#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
#55. Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.
Lenny Abrahamson
#56. I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lenny Kravitz
#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
#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
#59. Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.
Angela Bassett
#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
#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
#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
#64. We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.
Lenny Kravitz
#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
#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
#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
#68. I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.
Lenny Wilkens
#69. The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Lenny Bruce
#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
#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
#72. I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Lenny Bruce
#73. I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.
Lenny Dykstra
#74. Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.
Bernard Goldberg
#75. Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.
Lenny Abrahamson
#76. Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
Lenny Kravitz
#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
#78. I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.
Lenny Bruce
#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
#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
#81. God is love and if you are ready, he always is.
Lenny Kravitz
#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
#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
#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
#86. I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.
Lenny Bruce
#87. I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.
Lenny Kravitz
#88. One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
Lenny Kravitz
#89. Did you hear something?"
"No."
"Did I hear something?"
" ... I don't know ...
Matt Groening
#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
#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
#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
#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
#94. Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.
Lenny Kravitz
#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
#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
#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
#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
#99. I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.
Lenny Kravitz
#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
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