Top 53 Quotes & Sayings by Greg Proops

Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.

I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.

I love the nightlife. I like to boogie.

I'm always looking for that place, you know, where there's no rednecks, that place where people get along, and I never find it. I went to Australia, right, and I thought Australia was gonna be a groovy, surfnoid, smoke-a-joint wombat, you know? 'G'day mate!' 'No worries!' And it's like Arkansas with a beach. It's a whole country with a 'No Fat Chicks' sticker on it.

And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.

If you want to live in 'white world,' if you want to experience the stultifying boredom and penetrating ennui that homogeneity can bring, you can go to Canada any day of the year. It's an entire country named Doug.

Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new world.' But even when you're little you're like, 'Umm.. Bullsh*t?'

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

Tequila is like acid in a glass.

Think about everything you read and everything you see. The one thing we can learn from all the horrible things that have happened in the last 15-20 years is that hysteria is the last thing we need. Cool thinking, pragmatism, and analytical thought are most important at this point.

I like the night life, I like to boogy.

I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff.

I see guys dressing like they're in college - and they're not. I don't want to be that guy.

Oh, I don't wear a bathing suit. I wear a tent when I go out.

White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.

If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.

I wear glasses. That's how you'll know me. I am the speccy one.... And I am proud.

I thought the Egyptians had cured baldness.

I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?

Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

I did stand up first in high school, joined an improv group in college, kept doing stand up after that, no one could deter me. And I have no other skills really, so I'm sorta stuck with this now. It's a little late to switch over to an ornithologist.

Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen.

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

If you have a funny costume, you can't really wear it when you get older.

President Clinton celebrates the first casual Friday at the white house by wearing leather chaps.

Yo. I'm from Beverly Hills, and I be pimpin'.

Animals have two vital functions in today's society; to be delicious and to fit well.

You can't smoke in a restaurant in Los Angeles, which is mildly ironic, when you consider the fact that you can't breathe outside a restaurant in Los Angeles.

Arizona changes its state motto to Damn, it's hot.

It doesn't matter how much of an asshole you are, there was always someone who thought you were cool.

Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.

Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

Let me tell you about Australia. It's really, really, really, far from wherever you live on Earth. You fly and you fly and you fly. Then relativity takes over and you get younger and younger. And when you land, you're a gleam in your father's eye.

How would you like to make money in real estate?

I work for a few at home who are devoted. People who are up now. Either they have some sort of bladder problem or they're extremely drunk. This is my crowd, these are the people I hope to get.

I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different to us. Seeking out podcasts, listening on headphones, it's like an intimate, specific conversation. People respond if it feels from the heart. I'm as neurotic a human being as lives, and I have my faults. I'm a drunk. But people really like that.

I like to go to England, and I'll tell you why. I like to go to a country where I am considered the best-looking person. It's as simple as that. Hollywood, kind of a crushing ego blow - 'Hey Buddy Holly, you are so old, have you not perished in a plane crash?' But not in England, good God, not there. In England, God bless that dinky island, there it's, 'Good God, look at him. He has all his teeth and his ears are in proportion to his head.' I'm Brad bloody Pitt on that island.

People will really believe anything. You may have noticed this. It’s not just me. Look around.

You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is secondhand smoke really the chiefest of your health concerns at this point?

I love animals. I couldn't eat a whole one but I'll split one with you if you want.

I have to hear this all the time in England: Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm. Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.

If you do not find me funny, that is your problem and I am not going away.

No one is a natural - you have to work at being a natural.

I would like to thank ABC for giving me the Drew Carey award. It only goes to one lucky guy with glasses a year, and gosh darn it, tonight I'm the king of the... general area.

I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.

I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.

You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!