Lenny Bruce Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think — Dorothy Kilgallen
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones. — Faye Dunaway
I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce. — Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police — Phil Spector
I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put… — Marc Maron
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives… — Harlan Ellison
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce. — Bernard Goldberg
Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce. — Phil Ochs
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruceâ€”to which in fact he was once taken. Trying… — David Markson
My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz… — Judd Apatow
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change… — Penn Jillette
Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge. — Dennis Miller
Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce. — Joe Rogan
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. — Paul Mooney
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites. — David Dobkin
My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce. — David Steinberg
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of. — Jimmy Carl Black

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17 authors contributed a total of 18 Lenny Bruce Quotes as follows: