Michael Richards Quotes (15 Quotes)

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.

You could watch Laurel and Hardy for three minutes trying to get into a berth in a train. And that's what made Lucille Ball so popular. She's always doing funny rather than saying funny. The shows today say funny, but I don't see anybody doing funny.

It's more of just taking what we had on the students and trying to introduce them to some 'flavor,' and have others gain some interest in it. It's not too much of one thing - people will get things in all areas of art. We'll have poetry, dancing and a bunch of random things that reflect on the department. It's been crazy trying to organize it and make sure everything is mixed in.

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

Hopefully, we can come to agreement before we go to the Legislature.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

A lot of people at whatever age want to improve themselves and better their lives. And sometimes they just need a little refresher to do that. That's why we are here.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

I lost my temper on stage.

These boys have been a pleasure to coach and winning a grand final is just a great feeling ... it's hard to describe.

I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.