Top 124 Quotes & Sayings by Eddie Griffin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Eddie Griffin.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Edward Rubin Griffin is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for portraying Eddie Sherman in the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie, the title character in the 2002 comedy film Undercover Brother, and Tiberius Jefferson "T.J." Hicks in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005). He also portrayed Orpheus in Scary Movie 3 (2003) and voiced Richard Pryor on Black Dynamite (2012–2015). Griffin was ranked at number 62 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.

American - Comedian | Born: July 15, 1968

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When I first got here, Vegas still felt like a destination. Now it's become a real city.

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I am definitely scary to a lot of people. I talk about realities that some folks just don't want to hear.

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Me and Dave Chappelle were at Charlie Murphy's funeral. I got up there and I got to preaching, and I took over the church.

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Malcolm and Eddie Show,' a lot of other people came and went, but Malcolm and Eddie were steady on the case.

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I have the idea of cool, but at the end of the day, I'm a pushover.

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Stand-up is good therapy.

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The devil is a fun character to play because he's everywhere and no where all the time.

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I'm old enough to remember the '70s. The '70s is a different time.

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I'm more comfortable on stage than I am off.

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I've been on stage since I was six years old... Street dancing, bugaloo, moonwalking.

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I like racism above the ground so it can be dealt with, but when it's subversive and subjugated, it gets real dangerous.

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There is a systematic effort to destroy every black male entertainer's image. They want us all to have an asterisk by our name.

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You only live once but in my case, twice. I'm indestructible.

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Nobody wants people following them around 24 hours a day with a camera.

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When I'm telling jokes, I'm constantly in motion. I can't stand in one place.

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Why censor yourself? You got to tell the truth as you see it.

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I'm one of the greatest storytellers ever.

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No matter how dysfunctional we are, we can still have a positive impact on each other's lives.

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If there are things that are off limits, why would you do standup?

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We here a blink of an eye, even if we make it 75, 80 years, you still here a blink of an eye. Enjoy it.

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I'm truly a believer that Satan was behind everything that happened in that White House, and now, the Republican party. Anything that is good for the people, they're against it.

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We went to open-mike night at a comedy club called Stanford & Sons and the comics were terrible. My cousin dared me to get up there and, well, he was challenging my manhood. I had to do it.

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Even the brokest Saudi got a Mercedes.

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America is one big dysfunctional family and we are still trying to figure out how to live together.

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Biggest man law - be a man. Simple: be a man, definition of being a man is being a man. And don't let your woman turn you into a little boy.

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I've wanted to do a Sammy Davis Jr. story for a long time. It's one of those pet projects that has to be done.

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In Hollywood, you serve no wine before it's time, give the haters no time to hate until it's too late.

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Stand-up is dangerous. That's what I like. You're out there on your own.

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I remember asking my mom when I was 10 if I was adopted because I didn't look like my brothers and sisters. She said, 'Are you crazy? You think I am gonna go buy another mouth to feed?' So that settled that.

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I'm a comic and I'm having way too much fun with the comedy. I do the music for myself.

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I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.

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I feel I have audiences on my side, and that's what keeps the movie machine going for me.

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I've never actually sat down and written a joke.

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If I can relate the black experience to white people, then they can understand us better and not be so afraid.

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Some might call my style pro-black, but I think of the basis of all my material as truth.

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People are just people; the only thing that's different is the form of government that leads them astray.

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I was born black in this country. Trust me, I've seen the government.

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The Tea Party ain't nothing but the Klan in street clothes. I liked 'em better when they were in the sheets, at least I could spot them.

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They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You have the government paying private prisons to feed and clothe each inmate, turning it into a damn business. And African Americans are set up for getting arrested.

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That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.

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I take a subject, then I go on stage, and whatever is in there comes out. You can edit as you go and continue to work it out on stage until it's something you like, but I never think about it. I just go up and flow.

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When I was 6, my mother put me on a picnic table in front of the whole family and told me to do my James Brown impression. I realized it was a great way of getting attention.

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People are people no matter where the hell you go. People still want to find relationships, fall in and out of love... that's what I've noticed as I've travelled around the world.

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One night I went to this comedy club and paid a hard-earned $5 to get in, and every comic that came up was dry as an old turkey wishbone, as in not even close to being funny. When you're broke and you pay $5 to see somebody, you want them to be funny.

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You know what TV is? It's 22 minutes of selling soap.

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I had some major league help. Andrew Dice Clay and Robert Townsend were there for me.

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Women are empowered, and they got better jobs than their husbands.

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My mama whupped me away from the penitentiary.

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Of course, I like Miami. What's not to like?

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My family is an open book. They don't hide.

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I raise successful children.

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Steven Segal's a cool dude. He's basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar.

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I don't like country music, so I won't buy a ticket. That doesn't mean I should be outside protesting.

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Comedy is a tool to be used so that people can relate to each other.

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I didn't want to be a comedian. I was just funny. I jumped on stage and found out I was good at it.

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You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the middle, because all of them are lying. It's what they're not saying that's really going on. What they're saying is called television programming. They're telling you this is the program. You are being programmed.

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What am I selling? Joy, happiness, a way to turn the ugliest ills of life on their head so you can laugh at it and not take it too serious.

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The international launch of 'Undeniable' is special because now fans all across the globe can laugh along to some of the funniest jokes in history.

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My thing is to talk about life, about experiences I've had.

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The criminal justice system is rigged against African Americans.

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