Marla Gibbs Quotes

I never really expected to be controversial.

I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.

This is a Dick Cheney I do not know.

I had a feeling there would be mixed reactions.

You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

Do I need to apologize for Mr.[Tom] Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

To that there is an answer.

Obviously I don't agree with everything he [Donald Trump] says. There's a lot that we have a difference of opinion on. But we can't ignore that he's touched on some issues that people are concerned about. If you look at the statements he made this week, obviously I think he made them partially to recapture the limelight after having lost it.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

Andy Pettitte is my friend...I think he misremembers.

Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

I cannot believe that [Donald Trump] is actually in the debates.

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.

When I do stand-up around the country, I often see people walk out. This is a show that they've purposely gone to, where my name is on the ticket, and it cost them $75 or something. So, you think, Wow, that means that they either didn't know very much about me when they bought their tickets or they're that offended by what I've said. I've been doing this a long time. Anybody who comes to one of my shows must sort of have an idea of where I'm coming from.

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

I think that everyone has an equal right to play and I think we've been supportive of that. With the Olympics and the controversy around that I think those decisions and those laws aren't necessarily something that I agree with personally ... their laws and their views.

I think people have a right to speak. And you have a right if you're on a college campus not to attend. You have a right to ask hard questions about the speaker if you disagree with him or her.

In my mind, I'm hilarious, so I would love to do some comedy. But, I'm not exactly sure my perspective is a healthy one.

What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.