Artie Lange

“I ain't apologizing for anything, especially if it's a joke.”

“Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.”

“Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.”

“A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.”

“I got cast on 'MADtv' as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who'd been screened. For any comic trying to make something of themselves, that was like hitting triple...”

“Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.”

“I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.”

“Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you...”

“It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.”

“The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.”

“Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he never left New York - Mel Brooks when he just got out of New York was doing 'Blazing Saddles...”

“People are so nice, you know. It's such a credit to Howard Stern - the audience base that he created is such a special thing. It took him a long time to create this family of fans, and I was...”

“When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. Y...”

“I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.”

“You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'”

“All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm s...”

“I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.”

“When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs....”