Sam Kinison Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Detox? There's a bargain. $13,000 for a 3 and a half week treatment. And, folks, I don't want to sound like a casual user or anything, but if you can come up with $13,000, you don't have a problem yet!

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

I look for women I know are gonna bust me up good. Come on, man, who can resist that? Who can resist that emotional pain? Yeah, they all have the same line, they're so sweet: 'I'm not gonna hurt you like all the others. Really I'm not. I'm gonna introduce you to a whole new level of pain!

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

In the last couple of years, I guess I've spent six figures on clothes. I figure I spend a lot of time shopping. Eight to ten days a month, I go out and buy. Yeah, I guess you could say that I'm a real clothes whore.

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn't scare the F - - out of everybody!

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

Rock Against Drugs, what a name. Somebody was high when they came up with that title. It's like Christians Against Christ. Rock created drugs.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

Trivia

Sam was originally considered for the main role by the producers of Beetlejuice (1988) but his agent never told him of their interest.

Sam wrote and performed in two HBO specials that were among the highest rated in their history, "Breaking All The Rules" in 1987 and "Family Entertainment Hour" in 1990.

Sam learned to play guitar, to shame his step-father who had mentally abused him growing up.

Sam was arrested at an airport for having a loaded gun in his luggage, which was placed there by a vengeful girlfriend to whom he had previously confessed that he was having an affair, before leaving for the flight.

Sam was a very generous tipper, often tipping 100% of his check.

Sam's "monument" in Needles, CA was shown the 2005 film "Domino." However, there is no real monument to him there, what was shown was a foam prop piece.

Sam impressed Blackie Lawless, the lead singer for the heavy metal group W.A.S.P., so much that Lawless wrote a song "Animal(F____ like a beast)" based on his hearing Sam compare his ex-wife to a "beast."

Sam was forced to leave preaching after his first divorce, a taboo in the Pentecostal Church for clergy.

Sam was very close friends with Howard Stern.

Sam's favorite movie was North By Northwest (1959) and he would often have it playing in his make-up room/travel trailer.