Michael Richards quotes

Michael Richards is an American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Cosmo Kramer on the television sitcom "Seinfeld." His unique physical comedy and eccentric character made him a beloved figure in American pop culture. He has also appeared in several films and television shows throughout his career. Here are 18 of his quotes:

You can talk! You can talk! You can talk! You're brave now, motherfucker! Throw his ass out! He's a nigger! He's a nigger! He's a nigger! A nigger, look, there's a nigger! Ooh! Ooh! All right, ya see? It shocks you, it shocks you, to see what's buried beneath, you stupid mother fuckers! (Michael Richards)

When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

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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.

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I lost my temper on stage.

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Whats the matter, too much for you to handle?

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Well, you interrupted me, pal. That's what happens when you interrupt the white man, don't you know?

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Cracker-ass? Are you calling me cracker-ass, nigga?!

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Ohh I guess I gotta quit because I said nigger.

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What was uncalled for? It is uncalled for you to interrupt my ass you cheap motherfucker!

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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.

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

For me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I'm deeply, deeply sorry. ... I'm not a racist, that's what's so insane about this!

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Ohh, I guess you got me there. He's absolutely right. I'm just a wash up. Gotta stand on the stage. - responding to the heckler saying "You're not funny! You're a reject! You never had no shows! You never had no movies! 'Seinfeld' that's it!"

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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.

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I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this. And yet it is said. It comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.

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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.

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

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Shut up! Fifty years ago we'd have you upside-down with a fucking fork up your ass!

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: July 24, 1949
Quotes count: 18
Wikipedia: Michael Richards

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