Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by David Spade

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

David Wayne Spade is an American actor, stand-up comedian, television host, and writer. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, and he later began an acting career in both film and television. He also starred or co-starred in the films Tommy Boy (1995), Black Sheep (1996), Joe Dirt (2001), Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003), The Benchwarmers (2006), Grown Ups (2010) and its 2013 sequel, The Ridiculous 6 (2015), The Do-Over (2016), and The Wrong Missy (2020).

American - Actor | Born: July 22, 1964

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I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

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I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right.

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I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

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There's always something funny about men chasing women.

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Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

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Sometimes when I watch a TV season, your favorite shows die quickly. And then sometimes it's not your favorite, and they live on for 12 years.

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Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.

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It's funny because it's funny.

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There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

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Single guys get a bad rap.

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I never dated much in high school or college.

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I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

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I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.

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It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

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You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

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I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

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I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.

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In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

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My career is just kind of crazy.

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It's so crazy in Hollywood.

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I have no detectable hair style.

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You know, you want to pull in a wide audience.

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I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.

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No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.

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When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

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Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'

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It's hard to have a career.

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To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

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I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

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To be famous and broke is hard.

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It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.

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Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

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The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.

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It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.

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If I try to cover too much ground, you start to get watered down and less interesting.

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With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show.

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My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

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Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good.

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I think the chances are better of me putting Super Unleaded into a rented car.

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My school of thought is, anything goes, but I can't do that anymore.

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It's good to do stand-up. It kind of wakes you up and makes you feel like you're doing something. You got the crowd right there. That's all fun.

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It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

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Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

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How do you lay low but still do your job? Try to stay out there without being out there like Jenny McCarthy?

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You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

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I've got people who like Tommy Boy, but they're getting older and there's a whole new wave of college kids who see that and Joe Dirt, and Just Shoot Me is a little older, so I wanted stuff for everybody.

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I'm always making fun of myself and my friends.

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I can see getting married and having a family, because it is the next thing on the agenda. You can only do this for so long. I'm old, and my friends all have kids. And I'm single, still blow drying my hair!

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Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

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I talk to my dad all the time, he's more like my buddy than my father, and he's not happy that I use him in my act. But I tell him, I have to get something out of this.

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Don't make your kids look hot and dirty and sexy when they're 5-years old! It's really not the place or the time. You're about 11 years early.

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Nobody wants to read about your life. Who cares?

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I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

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Seriously, you don't have to know English. It'd be nice, a nice little plus. We don't want miracles. You don't have to know the country's language. But just some shapes, that's all. A square. A little geometry.

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The last girl I went out with blew me off. Now I call her with lame excuses to see her, "Hey, did I leave a penny over there?"

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Horrible date all through high school and college. Here's an impression of me on a date in high school. Come on, chug it!

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Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, "That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible."

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Bill Murray I always liked. I'm not as good as him, but there's a quality in him that I like. And then there's DeNiro, I'll never be that.

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I want to get away from it all. Move to the sticks. Montana. Hundreds of miles from civilization. Get a cabin in the snow. Curl up with some cute girl. Say stuff to her like, Scream all you want, sugar. Ain't nobody gonna hear you!

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I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

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