Jim Norton People Quotations

When you talk about an icon and a legend, an extraordinary individual, as well as a people's person, it's difficult where to start about the man. He was the kind of person where all you would have to say is Amby and people knew who you were talking about. People loved him. On the day of his passing, the headline in the (Providence) Journal read, A one, and last, of a kind. In all of the years that I worked with Amby, it's hard to pinpoint what stands out the most, except that he was always there.

Most sitcoms are horrid. If we bomb on this one, it's our own fault. HBO allowed us a tremendous amount of room. The show in general, it's real. It's the way people interact with each other.

People say 'well gosh he must know something I don't know'. And, sometimes developers are like sheep. They all follow one another. And, we've already had follow ups from people in New York and Dallas and Kansas City.

The characters on the show talk like people talk in real life. I think people are going to appreciate that. This is a show people can relate to.

People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.

When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it.

People are too worried a lot of times what other people in the audience are going to think about them, so they like to feign offense so other people don't think that they're inappropriate for laughing at something.

People are dumb and they think that laughing equals cosigning a belief in the ideology, which it doesn't.

People are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim and it's not your fault. That's why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish.

I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like.

The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that’s probably why they’re the funniest. The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.