"When I was born I brought no..." - Quote by Rodney Dangerfield
When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!
More by Rodney Dangerfield
“When I got back into show business in 1961, I felt - for obvious reasons - that nothing in my life went right, and I realized that millions of people felt the same way. So when I first cameback my catch phrase was "nothing goes right." Early on, that was my setup for a lot of jokes.”
“I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."”
“At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.”
More on Childhood
“I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.”
“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.”
“If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.”