My parents passed away when I ...

My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity.
My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity.
 Jeff Ross

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
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You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
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The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.
 Jeff Ross
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.
 Jeff Ross
My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.
 Jeff Ross
You know, sometimes I worry, you know, is comedy and my type of comedy going to get stale? Is it going to be so offensive that it becomes uninteresting or so niche that I don't have an audience anymore? But it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger, where roasting now is a movement. These roasts are on in India, in Mexico.
 Jeff Ross
Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.
 Jeff Ross