Jerry Seinfeld

“Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem....”

“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.”

“To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.”

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”

“The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'”

“You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'”

“I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating - is this the exact right mix? I think that's - to me it's anti-comedy. It's...”

“Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.”

“Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.”

“If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience.”

“That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.”

“I have this old '57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I'll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, 'cluh-CLICK-click.' That door! I live for that door. Whate...”

“I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.”

“You don't even really need a place. But you feel like you're doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.”

“We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.”

“The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.”

“The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.”

“As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don't get that.”

“You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we...”

“When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day.”