Quotes By Joe Rogan

People for the most part can smell lies.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it.

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

I talk so much about sex that girls just want to meet me.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.

Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.