The best Quotes by Kevin Smith

The best Quotes by Kevin Smith

Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and comic book writer. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film Clerks (1994). His films also include Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), and Clerks III (2022).

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

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I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

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Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

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This is why you never go to New Jersey!

Donatello-TMNT in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

Conan O'Brien

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, we gotta go to Jersey.

Hulk in What If…? - Season 1 Episode 4

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

Harlan Coben

Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.

Christina Grimmie

Los Angeles New Jersey

You're asking me if I have any gum? That's like asking New Jersey if it has any sl-ts!

Max Black in 2 Broke Girls - Season 1 Episode 21

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to New Jersey - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

Reality Craziness & Weirdness

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

I always liked strange characters.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

Craziness & Weirdness

As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.

Paul Walker

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Dreaming Career

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Marilyn Monroe

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Solitude & Loneliness Career

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

Andrea Bocelli

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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

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You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

Howard Stern

Ambition Career

Liking comic books is popular, environmental awareness, being tolerant. If I was just born ten years later, I would have been the coolest person ever.

Morton Schmidt in 21 Jump Street

Nerds Comic Books

Juan: "I'm not a child."
Sarkov: "No, you are a grown man who makes comic books for a living."
Juan: "Graphic novels."
Sarkov: "Okay."

Alex Sarkov in The Imperfects - Season 1 Episode 1

You're going to judge us? Do you get all your ideas from comic book villains?

Chris Redfield in Resident Evil - 5

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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