"I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age."
Quotes by Adam Carolla
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Adam Carolla is an American radio personality, comedian, actor and podcaster. He hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast. He co-hosted the syndicated radio call-in program Loveline with Drew Pinsky from 1995 to 2005 as well as the show's television incarnation on MTV from 1996 to 2000. Carolla was the co-host and co-creator of the television program The Man Show (1999–2004), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television show Crank Yankers. He hosted The Adam Carolla Project, a home improvement television program which aired on TLC in 2005 and The Car Show on Speed in 2011.
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Adam Carolla quotes on Work
View all Work quotes →"Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor."
"I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is."
"My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine."
"If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life."
"I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age."
Adam Carolla quotes on Philosophy
View all Philosophy quotes →"A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing."
"The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'"
"If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?"
"The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'"
Adam Carolla quotes on Education
View all Education quotes →"People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'"
"My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine."
"My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine."
Adam Carolla quotes on Family
View all Family quotes →"I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other."
"I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other."
"If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life."
Adam Carolla quotes on Beauty
View all Beauty quotes →Adam Carolla quotes on Money
View all Money quotes →"You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society."
"In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it."
Adam Carolla quotes on Time
View all Time quotes →Adam Carolla quotes on Action
View all Action quotes →"I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans."
Adam Carolla quotes on Architecture
View all Architecture quotes →"I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps."
Adam Carolla quotes on Travel
View all Travel quotes →"I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food."
Adam Carolla quotes on Humor
View all Humor quotes →"It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything."
Adam Carolla quotes on Justice
View all Justice quotes →"When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much."
Adam Carolla quotes on Truth
View all Truth quotes →"My first car was a motorcycle."
Adam Carolla quotes on Politics
View all Politics quotes →"All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way."
Adam Carolla quotes on Success
View all Success quotes →"I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age."
Adam Carolla quotes on Wisdom
View all Wisdom quotes →"I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances."
Adam Carolla quotes on Life
View all Life quotes →"I don't know anything about computers."