Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Darrell Hammond

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Darrell Hammond.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Darrell Hammond

Darrell Clayton Hammond is an American actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2009, and has been its announcer since 2014.

I belong to the Democratic Party.
College kids, don't be taking examples from me.
Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head. — © Darrell Hammond
Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.
I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.
I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.
If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.
Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.
I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.
I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.
If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.
The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.
Doctors didn't know what to do with me.
I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
I had a dad you know.
I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.
I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.
When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.
I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.
I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.
Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.
I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'
I don't know if I want to be a big star though. — © Darrell Hammond
I don't know if I want to be a big star though.
It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.
I've seen the hell these people go through.
I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.
Not everyone can invest their heart into learning something and making it fully realized, and the chances are 9 out of 10 that it's gonna get thrown away.
I was on as many as seven medications at one time, doctors didn't know what to do with me.
It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.
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