Joe Piscopo Quotes

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.

What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be, like, a really big tomboy.

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met.

I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

I came out of a blue-collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work.

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over, I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing. Yes, I grew up in Hollywood, but not in any rich neighborhood.

My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.

My mom's a lawyer. She was part of the group that wrote the bar exam. My father is a dentist. They've always worked.

My parents never went to college. My dad started as an hourly worker.

My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

My dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever. So I don't know how that got in my gene pool, but it did.

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.