Quotes by Larry Wilmore

Larry Wilmore

“Keep it 100” means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression … “keeping it real,” which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You’re either being honest or you’re not.

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A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

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Catholic and Jew – it’s very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

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During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was hiring a different kind of brother, you know, and I was doing political humor… In order for me to really have a long career, I’m going to have to learn how to write and produce for myself… I had no idea I was really going to like it and I’m very fortunate to be successful. But the idea was to always eventually create something for myself. That was the idea from the beginning when I went into writing and producing.

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Even though you’re in charge you’re not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.

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Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic – that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

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I do believe that the Mormon Church is at kind of an awakening, in two different ways: More people are becoming aware of it, and it’s becoming a force to be reckoned with. There’s a lot of Mormon converts globally.

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I don’t care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I’m more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I’m not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

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I don’t have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ – ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

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I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

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Quotes by Larry Wilmore

Larry Wilmore

“Keep it 100” means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression … “keeping it real,” which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You’re either being honest or you’re not.

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

Catholic and Jew – it’s very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

Even though you’re in charge you’re not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic – that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

I do believe that the Mormon Church is at kind of an awakening, in two different ways: More people are becoming aware of it, and it’s becoming a force to be reckoned with. There’s a lot of Mormon converts globally.

I don’t care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I’m more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I’m not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

I don’t have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ – ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

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