Bill Cosby Quotes on People (9 Quotes)

I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.

Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on.

The incarcerated These are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake and then we run out and we are outraged, saying, The cops shouldn't have shot him. What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand

This was a threat being carried out -- 40 million for 22 years, ... I've watched these people, paying them, answering their wants and needs. This was a real threat, and I wanted her mother to know what she was doing.

I was told maybe nine years ago by an executive who was working for a major network that the networks from now on are going to be entertaining 13-year-old people, and that's what you see today.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

The thing that made such an impression with the audience was the clear fact that this show was different and not just in the color of the people or the fact that they were professionals, ... What made me want to do the series was that as a parent watching situation comedies with my family, I wanted to take the house back as a parent.

This happened to the people. The Constitution says 'of the people, by the people, for the people' . . . but the people who got the office, got into office and forgot about the people.