40 Quotes by Michael Richards

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.

I’m trained as an actor for the stage – classically trained, believe it or not – and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don’t know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I’ve been in this comedy racket, because it’s just how everybody wants to see me.

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.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock ‘n’ roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, “Go! Go! Go for the burn!”

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.

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

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

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.

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.