"I started over again with an image:..." - Quote by Rodney Dangerfield
I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.
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“With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.”
“You know you're ugly when you go to the proctologist and he sticks his finger in your mouth.”
“If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.”
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“We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.”
“When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.”
“He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.”
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“When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.”
“I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.”
“You get to play with people's little danger zones.”