George Carlin Quotes

If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot.

Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

Your questions are stupid!

I’m ready any time you want to repeat the stupid question.

Go ahead and investigate the bastards.

I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.

If you yell at your box, I'm not really sure it's something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself.

I've always had that feeling for the dark side, for the anger and the hate-rock. The music is just the way I deal with it.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.

Why complain to the NBA and to the officials all the time, just like Tyrone Hill, always complaining about me on the court?

Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry man when he was young. He was angry and frustrated and had no idea how to channel anger.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

I'm actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

I'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam.

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

The gigs I enjoy are the ones where I'm so angry and paranoid, and I hate the audience so much, that I put everything into it to feed off the aggressive side of it. I don't actually hate the fans but when I'm feeling angry, pissed off, and full of hate, it's a good gig for me.

I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child. "Stop calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about." "Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year.