Brad Garrett

I'm a large, bombastic type of windbag.

I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.

I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.

There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.

I love performing, and it's important that I do it at my own club, absolutely. It's good for me. It's good for business.

I'm not big on game shows.

I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.

People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.

There's not a day that goes by where I don't think, 'Oh, I'm a lucky pup.'

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.