It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
Sam KinisonIn the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
Sam KinisonThere's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
Sam KinisonMy view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
Sam Kinison