Norm MacDonald
Norm MacDonald
Norman Gene "Norm" Macdonald is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actor. He is best known for his five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, which included anchoring Weekend Update for three years. Early in his career, he wrote for the sitcom Roseanne and made appearances on shows including The Drew Carey Show and NewsRadio. He starred in The Norm Show from 1999 to 2001. Comedy Central named him #83 on the five-part miniseries 100 Greatest...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth17 October 1963
CityQuebec City, Canada
CountryCanada
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.
None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.
RIP Amy Winehouse. We lost a true heroin addict today.
The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
Few people love with the violence they hate.
Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.