110 Quotes by Pete Holmes

Whenever I make a blasphemous joke, I always say that I believe in a God big enough to know that I'm just kidding. How can God not know that I'm kidding? And also, how could God be offended at a thing that he made not believing in him?

It's funny - the reason I started doing a podcast was because every time I was on someone else's podcast, I would take it over a little bit.

It's true that in show business, a lot of times a producer will just not ever be there, not even be aware that a show is renewed or canceled.

When somebody comes across as authentic and genuine and sweet, people just want to spend time with that person.

I felt like I was in a unique position, or I am in a unique position, to show the evangelical world in a way that I haven't seen on TV before. That's a world that I'm very familiar with.

I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.

Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that way, a stand-up is similar to almost any profession. It's very simply just someone who wants to be heard and live authentically and express themselves.

There's something about taking emotional and career and relationship humiliations, writing them, acting them out again, but then redeeming them in some way.

I love Batman to death.