Marc Maron Quotes

I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'

I'm just saying, 'Hey, throw me a bone. How about a smile, cute t-shirt? Look at me.' Nothing - unless it's a turn to their friends to go, 'Hey, why is that weird guy looking at us?'

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.

The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win.

I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could.

It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.

I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I don't really get tired of talking to other people.

I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.

It's great to have people come out. I do worry, though. They know me very intimately, in a way, if they listen to my show; they know a lot about me.

There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there.

Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.

I was married once before, and I stopped.

I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

Hopefully standup will become special again.

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.

Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

All I can do in the context of pursuing any sort of TV thing, and all I've done in the past, is offer your life at any given point in time to whatever situation you're in.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

I live in Los Angeles, I know it exists. I know you're not supposed to taste air.

As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.

I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.

Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

In a lot of ways, I'm seeking some sort of peace of mind for myself. I'm a fairly emotionally petty, resentful guy who has an inflated sense of himself, and I needed to take that down a notch.

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.