175 Quotes by David Cross

I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, "It's just shock value. It's not even funny." I disagree. There's different ways to be funny and to be a comedian.

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

I'm a professional comic. Whether you think I'm funny or not, that's, again, subjective.

I do not want to encourage heckling and outbreaks at all.

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the idea that somebody would come there and say those things that I said created an atmosphere where some people would walk out, and suddenly they weren't in the minority. For an hour and a half, they were the majority. So I would argue that it does need to be said.

Maybe if you live in Brooklyn, you don't need to hear that? But please, trust me, in most of America, they do need to hear it. And they're quite thankful that somebody came out and did it. For an hour and a half in that theater, for once, they're in the majority.

I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.

I think the policies, for the most part, that [Hillary Clinton] will put in place are not going to make positive changes. There'll be more status quo. She'll certainly be good for some groups of people. Whatever.