Top 120 Marc Maron Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10 years in is very mutual, earned, and evolved over time. It was never an easy thing. I like that they have a certain distance and have their own sense of selves.”

— Marc Maron

52. “Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.”

— Marc Maron

53. “There was a period when I was getting a lot of banana bread, because I mentioned someone cooked me banana bread, and then everyone cooked me baked stuff, and I would take it to the hotel, and it was making me fat.”

— Marc Maron

54. “When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.”

— Marc Maron

55. “Any comic can get on the radio show and be funny. You can get that on any morning radio show or afternoon radio show. There are plenty of people who do that. It’s not a difficult format, to sit around with two or three comics and be funny.”

— Marc Maron

56. “As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.”

— Marc Maron

57. “I don’t care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.”

— Marc Maron

58. “She had that strange mutant beauty that models have. It’s the kind of beauty that no matter what they are wearing or how they try to hide themselves, a sharply defined, electric appeal comes through and zaps your desire.”

— Marc Maron

59. “I remember seeing Richard Pryor’s first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I’d never laughed that much.”

— Marc Maron

60. “I immediately went out and bought a book on anger management. And now I have that book, and I don’t know if I’ll get to the book. But I’m certainly excited about the day where I can’t find the book, and I get to say, ‘Where the hell is my anger management book?!’”

— Marc Maron

61. “I’m happy, certainly, given the times we’re living in, to be doing OK, and to not be worrying about money, and to be producing something I enjoy.”

— Marc Maron

62. “They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.”

— Marc Maron

63. “If you can’t afford the good food or if you can’t afford health care or if you don’t have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can’t get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.”

— Marc Maron

64. “But then again, what do I know. I project. Then I judge.”

— Marc Maron

65. “In a lot of ways, I’m seeking some sort of peace of mind for myself. I’m a fairly emotionally petty, resentful guy who has an inflated sense of himself, and I needed to take that down a notch.”

— Marc Maron

66. “You get all excited to give her the ring, and it’s real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you’re like, ‘Damn, I could have had a car.’”

— Marc Maron

67. “I was married once before, and I stopped.”

— Marc Maron

68. “Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.”

— Marc Maron

69. “Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.”

— Marc Maron

70. “What comics sacrifice and what lives they live – I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they’re sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they’re fairly sensitive. Usually they’re very bright. And that makes them poets.”

— Marc Maron

71. “They used to have a smoking section at most airports. No more. They now have these glass-encased rooms. You’re not just a smoker, you’re an example to other people. You’re an exhibit at a futuristic zoo.”

— Marc Maron

72. “It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities – New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles – there’s very few people I haven’t run into.”

— Marc Maron

73. “The next evolutionary step is into the screen.”

— Marc Maron

74. “I’ve always been someone who likes to talk to people. When I was a little kid, I sought out freaks and weirdos that wandered the streets by where I worked in high school. I would just bring them in and talk to them.”

— Marc Maron

75. “How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor’s something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies – you’ve got to draw a line there.”

— Marc Maron

76. “I’m weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.”

— Marc Maron

77. “I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.”

— Marc Maron

78. “I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don’t seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.”

— Marc Maron

79. “Let’s be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That’s all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are the world’s mouth. They make things in other countries, and they’re like, ‘Send it to America; they’ll eat it.’”

— Marc Maron

80. “I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy – not to address politics.”

— Marc Maron

81. “I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.”

— Marc Maron

82. “It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.”

— Marc Maron

83. “I look at every book as a self-help book.”

— Marc Maron

84. “I’ve become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.”

— Marc Maron

85. “Because we’re comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there’s a mutual respect there.”

— Marc Maron

86. “In our interview, Conan said something about the secret of his success: “Get yourself in a situation where you have no choice.” And that’s what I’m doing, because I had no choice.”

— Marc Maron

87. “I don’t seek controversy. I don’t seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I’m not there to argue politics.”

— Marc Maron

88. “I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it’s mine; it’s just me and my producer and business partner, so it’s our business.”

— Marc Maron

89. “I think seeing Pryor’s first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.”

— Marc Maron

90. “I’m just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I’m not writing or playing guitar or on the microphone or out on the road, I’m cleaning pots and pans or freaking out about some plumbing issue or tweeting.”

— Marc Maron

91. “It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn’t seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.”

— Marc Maron

92. “I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody’s playing that stuff for me.”

— Marc Maron

93. “Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius.”

— Marc Maron

94. “You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.”

— Marc Maron

95. “I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it’s taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.”

— Marc Maron

96. “When you’re a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it’s just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.”

— Marc Maron

97. “People don’t talk to each other about real things because they’re afraid of how they’ll be judged. Or.”

— Marc Maron

98. “What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the fact that I wanted to talk. I was not there to plug things. I don’t do a hell of a lot of research. I go on a sort of kindred-spirit bonding that preexists the interview, and just see what unfolds.”

— Marc Maron

99. “It’s amazing how much you can rationalize when you’re on drugs. I could actually say to myself, “Look, I’m only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.”

— Marc Maron

100. “The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine – 100s of words a day.”

— Marc Maron