Bill Maher Quotes

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.

I like to rattle cages.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

I'm like a renegade and that rubs people wrong.

I want to change the game and break through the nonsense without any Establishment help.

Everything is offensive, so I'm enjoying the fact that I'm anti-kind. You've got to go out and just speak your mind. It needs to be heard.

We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.

I wouldn't say I'm a rebel, but I do like pushing the limits sometimes.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.