Victoria Jackson Quotes

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.

Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.

I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

My son died for lies.

I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown.

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.

I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.