Quotes About Hecklers

#1. I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.

Burl Ives

#2. I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

Michael Richards

#3. I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

Billy Connolly

#4. I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.

Anthony Jeselnik

#5. There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

John Oliver

#6. I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

Paul Daniels

#7. I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.

Dane Cook

#8. There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.

Jo Brand

#9. I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd say percentage-wise it's only about 10 to 20 percent the whole year.

Godfrey

#10. I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat (would-be hecklers) to the punch.

Jim Gaffigan

#11. When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. I think I intimidate hecklers because I weigh more than most of them.

Bruce Vilanch

#13. Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?

Godfrey

#14. I always find a couple of hecklers ... I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.

Jermaine O'Neal

#15. On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

Mike Tyson

#16. I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

Jo Brand

#17. I get hecklers all the time!

Judah Friedlander

#18. COMEDIAN: [ ... ] What is it you do for a living?
HECKLER: I mind my own business.
COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what do you do?
HECKLER: I try not to do.

J. Ross Clara

#19. I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Eminem

#20. Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate, but it is crafted hard by the hands of God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing.
The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

Jerry Garcia

#22. My timing is so precise a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

Phyllis Diller

#23. The only connection I had left with my parents is an old photograph of the two of them on their wedding day.

M.C.

#24. Humor heals the heckler.

Gerald C. Meyers

#25. Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.

Jay Samit

#26. You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

Seth

#27. The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

Max Anders

#28. HECKLER: Say something funny!
COMEDIAN: I don't do requests.

J. Ross Clara

#29. The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

Gustave Flaubert

#30. [To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#31. I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

Lara Flynn Boyle