Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Bert Kreischer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Bert Kreischer.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Bert Kreischer

Bert Kreischer, nicknamed "The Machine", is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, reality television host and actor. In 1997, he was featured in an article in Rolling Stone while attending Florida State University. The magazine named Kreischer "the top partyer at the Number One Party School in the country." The article also served as inspiration for the 2002 film National Lampoon's Van Wilder. Kreischer has served as host of the television series Hurt Bert on FX as well as Bert the Conqueror and Trip Flip on Travel Channel. He is slated to appear on The Machine, a comedy film based on his life and career.

I love giggling more than anything in the world. It's my favorite thing in the world to do.
I'm just kind of a regular guy.
You don't go to a school and major in partying. — © Bert Kreischer
You don't go to a school and major in partying.
Some of the most fun I've ever had has been filming 'Bert the Conqueror.' As a stand-up comedian, I love putting this humorous spin on travel, and I get the added bonus of using all these wild adventures in my act.
Don't hole up in your apartment and just write jokes, be a real human being and develop your own voice. Then you will be undeniable.
I grew up Catholic and still feel a lot of Catholic guilt. But my wife is not religious so we're not raising our daughters religiously.
I say off-the-wall things to get a response.
When I was on 'Hurt Bert' on FX - and I'm not crapping on FX, I'm just being honest - there was a point when I realized that they didn't care if I died. If I died, they'd say 'Of course it's a legal thing, but think of the numbers.'
The Travel Channel named me the professional fun seeker, and that's exactly what I am.
I get this weird energy that starts in my feet and goes up and fills my head, and I just want to get everyone in the crowd to laugh.
There are days where I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I'm so happy I'm living the life I'm living.'
I've learned to control my anxiety.
I was in New York City and my sister and cousin came out to see me, and I brought a guitar on stage. But all the audience wanted was for me to play so they weren't listing to anything I was saying, I bombed hard. On the cab ride home, my sister pulled a sticker off the cab and put it on my guitar which I still have today in my man cave.
I was in an ESPN interview and was asked, 'Who would I most want to ride a roller coaster with?' and I said Warren Sapp because every time he giggles, you can hear there's a little girl inside of him. I called him a little girl, and he found me on Twitter and was like, 'Are you the Bert who called me a little girl?' I was like, 'Oh, great!'
Busch Gardens was my theme park; it was where I went on my day off from school. — © Bert Kreischer
Busch Gardens was my theme park; it was where I went on my day off from school.
I'm not technically brand-friendly to feminists.
I'd love to write a book called 'How to Raise a Virgin.' Seriously, I think a book about that would sell.
My personality has gotten me some really good job interviews in New York.
I'm such a lazy traveler. When I go to a city now, I hang out around the venue. I'm boring.
I love touring. I love stand up. I love getting on a tour bus with my friends.
I'm the guy who needs to be front and center. I joined a fraternity to do that.
I love going on other people's podcasts - in my opinion not enough people ask me to be guests!
I need someone to be like, 'I can beat Bert in a marathon.' And then my Mickey Mantle genes will kick in and I'll start going, 'No you can't. You can't beat me, because I'll beat myself.'
My father grew up in Levittown, L.I., in the first tract housing built for G.I.'s. His dad had stormed the beaches of Omaha and died when my father was very young. My dad had to raise himself, pretty much.
I'm a big believer in saying things out loud, I think he that helps you focus your goals.
Skydiving is fascinating, the best part is cruising in the air and realizing that the dice has been thrown and you're either going to die or not. It's a very helpless feeling but it's so freeing.
I generate a lot of good vibrations, good energy.
It's not hard to find the energy to do the things you absolutely want to do.
I like parties. I like talking and conversations.
Men scream, that's why they gave us voices.
Part of my personality is I like to have a good time and I'm an extrovert, and extroverts, they blossom as meathead frat boys and extroverts get labeled as meathead frat boys. For me, it's just part of my personality.
When people think of New York, they don't automatically think of going to Chelsea Piers and Pier 40, where you're going to find a soccer field, a baseball field, the trapeze and bowling alleys.
I'd love to be a movie star. That'd be great. But I lost the looks awhile ago. They slipped right through my hands like sand in an hourglass.
I don't have that kind of brain where I can spell-check.
I like comics like Janeane Garofalo who is very stream of conscious in an honest way.
I love partying and I love laughing.
I think I've got the coolest friends in the entire world, I really do.
There's nothing like making a crowd laugh. For me that's the ultimate high. — © Bert Kreischer
There's nothing like making a crowd laugh. For me that's the ultimate high.
I like making people laugh.
I know the one thing that will reset my button is getting up and running a fast mile.
No matter how successful I may get, I'll always be a failed musician, sitting at a concert double-fisting overpriced twenty-ounce beers, wishing it was me on stage brooding soulfully to my fans. I had my shot once, but I let it slip through my fingers.
I am not a big fan of very prepared standup. I like when Dave Attell writes and I appreciate it but I much more enjoy with he does crowd work. I'm not that kind of comic that prepares a specific set. If I see a comic do the same prepared set night after night I am so bored.
The first and last song I ever wrote was a ballad I was quite proud of, and one I would play for anyone, anywhere.
People take getting offended in L.A. to an art form.
I adopted a motto: Never say no. Jim Morrison never said no, Kurt Cobain never said no. You couldn't have great things to write about if all you did was sit in your living room with your roommates talking about the phone bill.
My second freshman year of college, that's year two of seven, my father got very sick and though he was going to die. He gave me a Rolex, a bottom of the line one. I wore that watch everyday. He didn't die. On my 40th birthday, he gave me a very nice Rolex that belonged to him. That's the one thing we connect on: the watch.
I run into guys all the time that say, 'Me and my three buddies started fat shaming each other and we collectively lost 130 pounds.'
My whole life I've wanted to be famous.
I have always liked being the life of the party.
I read some older books when I worked at Barnes And Noble, like some of the American classics. I read a lot of Hemingway. I fell in love with Hemingway's prose and with the way he wrote. I feel like he's talking to me, like we're in a bar and he's not trying to jazz it up and sound smart, he's just being him.
My first stand-up experience was in Tallahassee at a club called Potbelly's. — © Bert Kreischer
My first stand-up experience was in Tallahassee at a club called Potbelly's.
My biggest regret is by far doing the Travel Channel show, 'Bert the Adventurer.' I spent seven years away from my family. I don't regret the job or working for the channel; I regret being away from home.
Doing a reality show is like being in a fraternity.
I'm a comedian. I want you to laugh. That's my main goal. I punch things up to get things tighter, quicker and get you to the joke faster.
I really respect those guys that get $250,000 for punching up scripts, because it's an art form.
If there's an adrenaline rush, I will find it; if there's an anxiety attack, I will have it.
I did nine years with Travel Channel and had all of these incredible experiences.
I can talk fantasy football forever!
Here's the weird thing about me. I was never one to tell you stories about me. I was always the guy who others told stories about. I was like that up until I was 35 years old. And then I started telling stories about me onstage.
I've always clowned around.
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