78 Quotes by Brad Garrett

Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.

I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.

I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.

People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.

My act is a little raunchy. When people come to my club, I have to warn them it isn't Robert from 'Raymond.'

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.

You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny.

Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.