Jim Breuer Quotes

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Jim Breuer

Profession : Comedian

Birth : July 21, 1967

The Mets represent life and the reality of life, the winning, the losing, the hope, the faith. You stick with them through the ups and the downs, the heartbreaks. Every year you always have hope. You always have faith, even when they break your heart. You get mad, but you stick with them. They're humbling.

Jim Breuer

Marriage is work. Get it out of your thick skull that marriage is, 'Oh, we got married and now we just live forever wonderfully.' It's work. It's just like starting a business: You're going to bicker with your business partner, but you don't leave the business partner. You work it out.

Jim Breuer

When you have three teenage girls, and you're married 21 years, and have a mother who's blind in one eye and has dementia who lives with you, and your dad has worse dementia, and you're into metal, and your wife is born again, you're never running out of material.

Jim Breuer

My eyelids cover half my face.

Jim Breuer

There are so many people that, as I go across the country, say, 'I was a student and I used to come see you.'

Jim Breuer

I tell it like it is, stuff pretty much everyone can relate to.

Jim Breuer

The truth hurts but it has to be heard.

Jim Breuer

Every subject you think you know, I'll dissect it and show you the truth.

Jim Breuer

It's bizarre how the most powerful, moving things in the world, there's no money. But that's going to be the most uplifting thing in anyone's life. There's not going to be a paycheck.

Jim Breuer

I really enjoy being in the rock world. They're funny, 90 percent of them are funny. And they're guys that you would just hang out with and it's awesome.

Jim Breuer

I was a very naive kid. I didn't know there were people living in closets in Hollywood.

Jim Breuer

I was very blue collar, and I had a great upbringing.

Jim Breuer

Most of the time I write visually. I get a visual of me in the audience watching the concert. I usually come up with the hooks first. Like with 'Old School.'

Jim Breuer

To me, those three are the revolutionaries. Richard Pryor was honest, raw. George Carlin was brilliant. He was also deep, fearless. And Sam Kinison was another one who went deeper and he revolutionized the angle of tackling humor with the whole rock star element of yelling and screaming, which was hilarious.

Jim Breuer

I grew up an '80s metal guy.

Jim Breuer

A lot of my stand-up point of view is family - not Disney but dealing with teenagers.

Jim Breuer

I can do four shows in a row singing no problem. Four shows in a row stand up, my voice is destroyed. I'm a storyteller so I act out a lot of characters and I act out a lot of situations and I'm distorting my voice and imitating characters I run into. I'm actually more exhausted doing that than I am with the rock shows, believe it or not.

Jim Breuer

No matter how many times I was tempted with fame and vanity I always go back to Valley Stream, which was always about community and family.

Jim Breuer

I started a family and I didn't ever want to be away from them. I'm sure it hurt my career, but I didn't care.

Jim Breuer

I wanted nothing to do with Hollywood. It's everything I'm against. I'm all for one and one for all, and there, it's 'All for me and I will do anything to get it.' And that is not a way of living for me.

Jim Breuer