Buddy Murphy Quotes

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

Look at me! I'm sweet and lovable!

Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

I've been a poser for f--ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.