When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.
“When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.”
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When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.
“When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.”
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“When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.”
“You know what male comics can't do? They can't get pregnant. They can't perform pregnant. So my attitude is, just use all those differences.”
“Even now, when I go out people are like, 'What are you doing here? Didn't you just have a baby?' But people never ask a male comic when he's out a week later, like, 'Oh my God, you're so irresponsible! What are you doing out? Who is taking care of the baby?'”
“If you want me to perform in Silver Lake - where it looks like 'Vice' magazine threw up everywhere, where all the men are wearing V-necks to their belly buttons, salmon pants, and carrying a screenplay - I'll do it, because they might appreciate a Banksy joke I can't do anywhere else.”
“Nothing is off-limits. There's just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can't do. When I start to talk about it, I just get really angry and super sincere. I have never found a way to craft all of that absurdity into funny.”
“My dad was a doctor, and he would tell us a lot of nasty, funny stories from the hospital. It was funny to me when I'd go over to other people's houses and they didn't talk about intestines at the table.”
“You realize mortality is everywhere.”
“I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.”
“Losing people does make you face up to your own mortality.”
“The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.”
“You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.”
“I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.”