Top 88 Quotes by Jerry Seinfeld

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

You can be passionate about anything.

I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day.