Steven Wright Quote by David Cross Download Open image “I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.” — David Cross ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Steven Wright
When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed doing stand-up. Andy Kaufman was a big hero of mine. I tried to do conceptual stuff like he tried to do. — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me. — Navid Negahban Copy Share Image
One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on 'The Wire.' — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
My influences as a comedian and filmmaker are Albert Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Andy Kaufman and John Cassevettes. — Sam Seder Copy Share Image
I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis,… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry. — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide,… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner. — David Cross Copy Share Image
There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I think for a lot of people, it's just where their saturation point was. Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff and the… — David Cross Copy Share Image
It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed… — David Cross Copy Share Image
You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy. — David Cross Copy Share Image
Most people who have kids are, "Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I was in Antwerp - which, I had about 20 shows left at that point - and a guy said, "That's Dave Attell's." Also,… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“Why Superbad Worked Superbad worked because Seth and Evan wrote about exactly what they were experiencing at the time. Evan explains, “At the time,… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he can pull… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. —Steven Wright” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness, — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do; I should… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
