Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Breuer

I have been fortunate enough to have a diverse career - appearing on TV, touring the country and meeting tons of celebrities, even hanging out with rock stars - and it has been a blast.

I'm a family guy who grew up with metal, and even though I'm domesticated I still have this in me.

I've got a very wide sense of humor.

You can't judge people for what you see for two seconds.

My dream was to be the biggest comic with the biggest band, touring together.

Don't ever underestimate someone's ability to live for the moment. At the end of the day everyone has a 'Mr. Rock n Roll' in them.

Marriage is work. Get it out of your thick skull that marriage is, 'Oh, we got married and now we just live forever wonderfully.' It's work. It's just like starting a business: You're going to bicker with your business partner, but you don't leave the business partner. You work it out.

I find myself laughing at a lot of things, from slapstick to dark humor. I'm pretty much all over the place.

I really enjoy being in the rock world. They're funny, 90 percent of them are funny. And they're guys that you would just hang out with and it's awesome.

It's bizarre how the most powerful, moving things in the world, there's no money. But that's going to be the most uplifting thing in anyone's life. There's not going to be a paycheck.

I've been around comedians that try their bits around you. I hate that.

The Mets represent life and the reality of life, the winning, the losing, the hope, the faith. You stick with them through the ups and the downs, the heartbreaks. Every year you always have hope. You always have faith, even when they break your heart. You get mad, but you stick with them. They're humbling.

There are so many people that, as I go across the country, say, 'I was a student and I used to come see you.'

I grew up an '80s metal guy.

I was a very naive kid. I didn't know there were people living in closets in Hollywood.

If you can step back and laugh at yourself and at a situation, it's healing.

I tell it like it is, stuff pretty much everyone can relate to.

Every subject you think you know, I'll dissect it and show you the truth.

Brian Johnson is the reason I became a Bon Scott fan.

The faith world to me is like a radio station. It's there. And if you want to plug in and listen to it, kind of tune into it, it can definitely be helpful. I don't know if it's an energy? I don't know what it is, but it fascinates me.

The thing that's gotten me everywhere in my standup is talking about my family. I started doing it back in high school. I don't think our society looks at marriage and family enough. I think we've gone off course.

Me and my wife started with absolutely nothing.

The greatest thing that I had in my life was those moments with my dad that I sacrificed. I looked at him as a soldier. He's a wounded soldier. It's my duty as a human to take care of this soldier.

Laughter is what connects pretty much all pain.

One of the things I did, I would go, 'Dad, I know you don't know how to work YouTube, but wait until you see this concert. I found Hank Williams in 1940. And look at this.' Then that brings on memories and it brings happiness and it gives him a little extra breath in life.

I started out in 1989 doing open mic nights. The first 10 years, I was literally all about I'm going to be a star. I want leather pants, I want a kangaroo, I want to be on 'MTV Cribs,' I want to go to the mall with a pet monkey and I want everyone to go, 'Wow, that guy's huge, he's successful.'

My whole family is extremely blue collar - teachers and police officers probably make up half my family. My father was a garbage man.

Caregivers need humor not only for the healing aspect but also to lift our spirits and inspire us to keep doing what we are doing.

Humility is one of the key aspects of spirituality, and along with comedy, a key component of healing.

Annie Lennox is tremendous live. What a presence.

In high school the dream was to go on a stand-up tour and front a heavy metal band. I always had that in the back of my head.

I'm a die-hard Metallica fan, I know the guys.

People are surprised that I'm married.

Before I even got 'Saturday Night Live,' I was already known as the furthest thing from a goat boy. I had a stand-up routine, which I was all ready to do on HBO, before 'Saturday Night Live,' so if my routine was dependent on being a goat, I would want to quit.

The energy of the metal is what I've always loved and the energy I do on stage with standup, I mean, I'm not Metallica, but I've always extremely attracted and driven by that energy and the thought-provoking lyrics and drive. That's an attitude every standup show I go in. I go in to crush your face.

To me as a fan, as a die-hard AC/DC fan, Brian Johnson is the reason I discovered AC/DC.

Obviously, being a diehard Mets fan, my passion is a given, but I also love playing baseball. I hadn't been able to participate since high school, when the game became a little too fast for me.

I'm not going to make fun of something that has badly traumatized someone's life.

I make my own schedule, I control my destiny, I get what I work for, and the money is great.

I'm the corner street storytelling guy. I'm the guy in the garage that the neighbors come over to talk to and I keep you entertained for hours.

A lot of my stand-up point of view is family - not Disney but dealing with teenagers.

I really look up to any relationships that last for years, and people tough it out and fight it out.

I can do four shows in a row singing no problem. Four shows in a row stand up, my voice is destroyed. I'm a storyteller so I act out a lot of characters and I act out a lot of situations and I'm distorting my voice and imitating characters I run into. I'm actually more exhausted doing that than I am with the rock shows, believe it or not.

I came from a blue-collar family where we busted each other's chops and found the funny in tragedies.

I have a deep respect for life in general; just a huge, deep respect for life. And I have definitely grasped onto the fact that every minute, every moment, to be grateful and thankful for. Because we really don't know what's two seconds away. We really don't. It's so unpredictable.

I learned more about my father in his last 5 to 6 years than I ever did my whole lifetime.

I have a weird fan base, people from all over the place for some reason.

The truth hurts but it has to be heard.

I was very blue collar, and I had a great upbringing.

Vulnerability, humility, relatability - those three are very close and very similar to keep you going.

Volbeat is one of those bands, where as soon as I hear them, I know who it is. It sounds like Elvis - backed by a Metal band.

My eyelids cover half my face.

Twenty years is what it takes to become a marriage warrior.

Everywhere I go, I feel the city out. I walk around and get there early, and I go off the cuff with whatever's going on in town.

Most of the time I write visually. I get a visual of me in the audience watching the concert. I usually come up with the hooks first. Like with 'Old School.'

I don't follow politics. I don't read news and I don't watch TV.

I never left my street until I was 16 years old. I didn't have to. I was entertained on that street forever. We were outside all day. The only reason to go inside was to sleep and eat.

To me, those three are the revolutionaries. Richard Pryor was honest, raw. George Carlin was brilliant. He was also deep, fearless. And Sam Kinison was another one who went deeper and he revolutionized the angle of tackling humor with the whole rock star element of yelling and screaming, which was hilarious.

I know I'm not a rock star.

When you have three teenage girls, and you're married 21 years, and have a mother who's blind in one eye and has dementia who lives with you, and your dad has worse dementia, and you're into metal, and your wife is born again, you're never running out of material.