Top Quotes by Eddie Griffin

Eddie Griffin

I've wanted to do a Sammy Davis Jr. story for a long time. It's one of those pet projects that has to be done.
- Eddie Griffin
Collection: Pet

What am I selling? Joy, happiness, a way to turn the ugliest ills of life on their head so you can laugh at it and not take it too serious.
- Eddie Griffin
Collection: Happiness

The whole world is one big dysfunctional family. But no matter how dysfunctional we are, we can still have a positive impact on each other's lives. We can still try to get along together.
- Eddie Griffin
Collection: Positive

No matter how dysfunctional we are, we can still have a positive impact on each other's lives.
- Eddie Griffin
Collection: Positive

Stereotypes start somewhere. There's different sides to all of us.
- Eddie Griffin

There is a systematic effort to destroy every black male entertainer's image. They want us all to have an asterisk by our name.
- Eddie Griffin

Even the brokest Saudi got a Mercedes.
- Eddie Griffin

Life is an endless journey through stupidity.
- Eddie Griffin

Biggest man law - be a man. Simple: be a man, definition of being a man is being a man. And don't let your woman turn you into a little boy.
- Eddie Griffin

We here a blink of an eye, even if we make it 75, 80 years, you still here a blink of an eye. Enjoy it.
- Eddie Griffin

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the middle, because all of them are lying. It's what they're not saying that's really going on. What they're saying is called television programming. They're telling you this is the program. You are being programmed.
- Eddie Griffin

Steven Segal's a cool dude. He's basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar.
- Eddie Griffin

I have the idea of cool, but at the end of the day, I'm a pushover.
- Eddie Griffin

When you come out of the NBA, you get a hundred million-dollar contract and a white woman!
- Eddie Griffin

Of course, I like Miami. What's not to like?
- Eddie Griffin

There are no 'Leave It to Beaver' families. Everybody's family's got that one nut that comes to the family reunion and you're like, OK, that guy's here.
- Eddie Griffin

The Tea Party ain't nothing but the Klan in street clothes. I liked 'em better when they were in the sheets, at least I could spot them.
- Eddie Griffin

I had some major league help. Andrew Dice Clay and Robert Townsend were there for me.
- Eddie Griffin

That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.
- Eddie Griffin

Comedy has a way of dealing with serious issues and finding humour in it.
- Eddie Griffin

Comedy is a tool to be used so that people can relate to each other.
- Eddie Griffin

Why censor yourself? You got to tell the truth as you see it.
- Eddie Griffin

I like racism above the ground so it can be dealt with, but when it's subversive and subjugated, it gets real dangerous.
- Eddie Griffin

I am definitely scary to a lot of people. I talk about realities that some folks just don't want to hear.
- Eddie Griffin

Stand-up is dangerous. That's what I like. You're out there on your own.
- Eddie Griffin

I'm old enough to remember the '70s. The '70s is a different time.
- Eddie Griffin

Me and Dave Chappelle were at Charlie Murphy's funeral. I got up there and I got to preaching, and I took over the church.
- Eddie Griffin

My family is an open book. They don't hide.
- Eddie Griffin

I remember asking my mom when I was 10 if I was adopted because I didn't look like my brothers and sisters. She said, 'Are you crazy? You think I am gonna go buy another mouth to feed?' So that settled that.
- Eddie Griffin

I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.
- Eddie Griffin

My thing is to talk about life, about experiences I've had.
- Eddie Griffin

I feel I have audiences on my side, and that's what keeps the movie machine going for me.
- Eddie Griffin

One night I went to this comedy club and paid a hard-earned $5 to get in, and every comic that came up was dry as an old turkey wishbone, as in not even close to being funny. When you're broke and you pay $5 to see somebody, you want them to be funny.
- Eddie Griffin

Some might call my style pro-black, but I think of the basis of all my material as truth.
- Eddie Griffin

If I can relate the black experience to white people, then they can understand us better and not be so afraid.
- Eddie Griffin

Women are empowered, and they got better jobs than their husbands.
- Eddie Griffin

Malcolm and Eddie Show,' a lot of other people came and went, but Malcolm and Eddie were steady on the case.
- Eddie Griffin

I don't like country music, so I won't buy a ticket. That doesn't mean I should be outside protesting.
- Eddie Griffin

The devil is a fun character to play because he's everywhere and no where all the time.
- Eddie Griffin

I'm truly a believer that Satan was behind everything that happened in that White House, and now, the Republican party. Anything that is good for the people, they're against it.
- Eddie Griffin