The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling. — Marc Maron Cat Copy Share Image
I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. — Marc Maron Comedy Copy Share Image
“People don’t talk to each other about real things because they’re afraid of how they’ll be judged. Or” — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the… — Marc Maron Bonding Copy Share Image
“[...] I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be… — Marc Maron Books Copy Share Image
It's not all about love. That's half of it... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're… — Marc Maron Compromise Copy Share Image
“I was with her for about six years before I asked her to marry me, which only means one thing: I shouldn’t… — Marc Maron Marriage Copy Share Image
When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of… — Marc Maron Europe Copy Share Image
Let's be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That's all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are… — Marc Maron America Copy Share Image
Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of… — Marc Maron Communication Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their… — Marc Maron Culture Copy Share Image
I came upon whatever I'm doing organically. I didn't study anything. I don't have any real aspirations other than to connect with… — Marc Maron Aspiration Copy Share Image
“Worse than the feeling of loss that comes with a breakup is the feeling of losing. Loss is a state of emotional… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East… — Marc Maron Bookstores Copy Share Image
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. — Marc Maron Experience Copy Share Image
Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see… — Marc Maron Awkward moment Copy Share Image
Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want… — Marc Maron Buying Copy Share Image
I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the… — Marc Maron Care Copy Share Image
Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's… — Marc Maron Campus Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the… — Marc Maron Business Copy Share Image
I live in Los Angeles, I know it exists. I know you're not supposed to taste air. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out. — Marc Maron Comedy Copy Share Image
I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the… — Marc Maron Being funny Copy Share Image
It's great to have people come out. I do worry, though. They know me very intimately, in a way, if they listen… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and… — Marc Maron Business Copy Share Image
Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on. — Marc Maron Comedy Copy Share Image
Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.' — Marc Maron Biology Copy Share Image
“I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights… — Marc Maron Growth Copy Share Image
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle… — Marc Maron Commitment Copy Share Image
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron Access Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes… — Marc Maron Book Copy Share Image