“My uncle's dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.”
"My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive."
- Rodney Dangerfield
Love
"I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it."
- Rodney Dangerfield
Self-awareness
"I hailed from a tough neighborhood. I was once attacked by a man with a knife. I knew he wasn’t a professional, the knife had butter on it."
- Rodney Dangerfield
Courage
"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself."
- Rodney Dangerfield
Creativity
"On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me."
- Rodney Dangerfield
Ambition
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity