Chris Crutcher Quotes

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.

I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

The American way is to let each family decide what they want in their homes, not somebody in Washington …. Four letter words are acceptable to some families and not acceptable to others.

It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate.

Regardless of the strength of the government's interest [in protecting children,] the level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.

I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an arithmetic that says: one f*** is a PG 13, two f***s is an R. They don't say: one bullet through one head is a PG 13, two bullets through more than two heads is an R.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

If something is too risque, don't watch it.

I don't condone bad language.