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Quotes about lenny (16 Quotes)
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.
It's important to know that the governor pardoned Lenny on the basis of the law as it was in 1964. He's saying that Lenny Bruce had it right and the state of New York had it wrong.
Only in this state New York was Lenny Bruce convicted and sentenced. It was the only time in the history of this state that a comedian has been prosecuted for words and words alone.
No one is going to think going into this movie that they are going to come out loving Frankenstein, and not in a cheap of cheesy way at all - he's really an angry, vicious guy - a beast. But when you think of the originals, they were scary melodramas. The characters were so deep. I always felt as badly for Frankenstein as I did for his victims because, like Lenny in Steinbeck's 'Mice and Men,' he's a man-child. I've always found that fascinating.
It's been a long time in coming, but Lenny Bruce is now back center-stage. It couldn't have happened to a better, nastier comedian,
I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.
I am seriously considering a run against Lenny. There are a number of considerations, many personal, which must be weighed first, and I do have some time.
I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball. He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea of where he was.
It wasn't that Lenny Bruce was colorful, it wasn't that Lenny Bruce was using four-letter words, it was that Lenny Bruce was angering people in power. He was saying things about race, about religion, about politicians that offended people. It is precisely that which the First Amendment is designed to protect.
It's not much of a disappointment. I've had a great run at it. I'm happy with being tied with Lenny. Any day, I'll take that. Like I said, everything must come to an end and I've had a great run. I'm certainly not disappointed at all.
It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.