Frases de Bill Hicks

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“Han probado que si dejas de fumar, tu vida se prolongará. Lo que no han probado aún es que una vida prolongada sea algo bueno. No he visto las estadísticas de eso aún.”

“Todos los gobiernos están mintiendo estúpidos.”

“Dejé de fumar. Es realmente difícil, pero me alegra haberlo hecho. Les diré, esta Guerra contra las drogas en EE. UU es la razón por la cual dejé de fumar, estoy jodidamente cansado de estar en el lado equivocado. La guerra contra las drogas, la que en realidad es una guerra contra los derechos civiles, no sean engañados de nuevo. Si realmente se preocuparan por nosotros se desharían de la droga número uno la cual son los cigarrillos; mata más personas que el crack, la coca y la heroína combinadas, cien veces. Legal.”

“Necesito dormir. Necesito como ocho horas al día, y alrededor de diez en la noche.”

“Hablando de Satanás, estaba viendo a Rush Limbaugh el otro día. ¿Acaso Rush Limbaugh no les recuerda uno de esos tipos gay que les gusta echarse en la bañera mientras otros hombres le orinan encima?”

“Sólo hablo con hechos, esa es la razón por la que soy un puto presumido bastardo.”

“Sé que no es una idea muy popular. No la escuchan uy a menudo … pero es la verdad. He ingerido drogas antes y … fue asombroso. Lo siento. Nunca maté a nadie, nunca violé a nadie, no robé a nadie, no perdí – hmm – un jodido empleo, me reí hasta los cojones, y seguí con mi vida. Lo siento. Ahora, ¿Donde está mi comercial?”

“He estado en lo que he llamado mi Tour OVNI, lo que significa, que como los OVNIs, yo también he estado apareciendo en pequeños pueblos sureños frente a un montón de campesinos más tarde. He estado dudando mi propia existencia.”

“La imagen complete es que el eterno sufrimiento le espera a cualquiera que cuestione el amor infinito de Dios. Ese es el mensaje que no has mostrado, ¿no es así? ¡Cree o muere! Gracias, Dios redentor, por todas esas opciones.”

“Amigos, es tiempo de evolucionar. Esa es la razón por la que estamos en problemas. ¿Saben por qué nuestras instituciones nos fallan, la Iglesia, el Estado, todo está fallando? Es porque, eh – ya no son relevantes. Se supone que debemos seguir evolucionando. La evolución no acabo con la obtención de pulgares oponibles. Sabían eso, ¿verdad? Hay otro 90 por ciento de nuestros cerebros que debemos iluminar.”

“Vuelve a la cama, América. Tu gobierno sabe funciona todo. Vuelve a la cama, América. Tu gobierno está al mando de Nuevo. Aquí. Aquí está Gladiadores Americanos. Vean esto, cállense. Vuelve a la cama, América. Aquí está Gladiadores Americanos.”

“Mienten acerca de la marihuana. Te dicen que fumarla te vuelve un inmotivado. ¡Mentira! Cuando estás elevado, puedes hacer todo lo que normalmente haces igual de bien – Tan solo te das cuenta que no vale la pena. Hay una diferencia.”

“Desearía conocer a un cristiano que me profetizara, pero siguiera corriendo lejos de mi. Quiero hablar con todos ustedes.”

“No sé en qué creen ustedes, y realmente no me importa… pero tienen que admitir que las creencias son extrañas. Muchos cristianos llevan cruces alrededor de sus cuellos… ¿Realmente creen que cuando Jesús vuelva va a querer ver una puta cruz?”

“Y les diré algo, también, que me está empezando a molestar acerca de los Ovnis: El hecho de que crucen galaxias o universos para visitarnos, y siempre terminan en lugares como … La maldita Fyffe, Alabama. Tal vez no son tan súper-inteligentes, ¿saben a lo que me refiero?”

“No todas las drogas son buenas, ¿entienden? Algunas son…grandiosas. Solo tienes que saber cómo manejarlas, eso es todo.”

“Por cierto, estoy disponible para fiestas de niños.”

“Buenas tardes, mi nombre es Bill Hicks. He estado en esto de la comedia 12 años, así que, eh, acompáñenme mientras les muestro una sonrisa falsa y paso por esta mierda una vez más. … Estoy algo cansado de viajar, algo cansado de hacer comedia, algo cansado de ver sus rostros inexpresivos mirándome, queriendo que llene sus vacías vidas con humor que posiblemente no pueden pensar por sí mismos.”

“Cualquiera puede ser un indigente; lo único que se necesita es la mujer correcta, el bar correcto y los amigos correctos, y estarás bien … tus amigos te verán. Santificarán su basura para ti.”

“El nacimiento de un niño es un milagro. No, no lo es… Es una reacción química, eso es todo.”

“La idea de obtener una, ustedes saben, jeringa llena de heroina e inyectarla en la vena bajo mi pene ahora parece casi una acción productiva.”

“Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.”

“On December 16th, 1961 the world turned upside down and inside out, and I was born screaming at America. It was the tail end of the American Dream. Just before we lost our innocence irrevocably when the TV eye brought the horror of our lives into our homes for all to see. I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted a fireman, a policeman, a doctor, even president it seemed, and for the first time in the history of mankind something new called an astronaut. But like many kids growing up on a steady diet of westerns I always wanted to be the cowboy hero that lone voice in the wilderness fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth, and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go in my never ending ride into the setting sun.”

“I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.”

“Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.”

“(On being censored): “I didn’t go up and say the Pope’s a faggot!…. Which is what he is, but I didn’t say that!””

“I hate patriotism. I can’t stand it, man — makes me fuckin’ sick. It’s a round world last time I checked.”

“"I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God." And I say no, it's not, Dad. "Well, I believe that it is." Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.”

“I am available for children's parties, by the way.”

“That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.”

“I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately. I've been doubting my own existence.”

“They're putting the cart before the horse on this pornography issue. Playboy doesn't cause sexual thoughts. There are sexual thoughts, and, therefore, there is Playboy. Don't you see? I know these sound like deep philosophical questions, "What came first, the hard-on or the Madonna video?" and "If a hard-on falls in the forest, do you go blind?"”

“(On being censored): “It amazes me how afraid they are of 1 person…. basically a joke blower!””

“I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.”

“I tell you, Satan's gonna have no trouble taking over here 'cause all the women are gonna say: "What a cute butt." "He's Satan!" "You don't know him like I do." "He's the Prince of Darkness!" "I can change him."”

“Where have I been? I've been on my flying saucer tour. Which means like flying saucers I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately…no one doubts my existence.”

“During the LA riots English people were trying to sympathize with me, "Oh Bill, crime is horrible. If it's any consolation, crime is awful here, too." Shut up. This is Hobbiton and I'm Bill-bo Hicks … You gotta see English crime. It's hilarious. You don't know if you're reading the front page or the comic section over there. I swear to God. I read an article front page of the paper one day, in England: "Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury." … Wooooo. The hooligans are loose! The hooligans are loose! … What if they become ruffians? I would hate to be a dustbin in Shaftesbury tonight. [to the tune of "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who] "No one knows what it's like … to be a dustbin … in Shaftesbury … with hooligans …"”

“You know how in many parts of our troubled world they are yelling 'revolution! revolution!' In Tennessee they are yelling 'evolution… we want our thumbs!' The thing is they see people with thumbs on T. V. all day, boy that's got to drive them hog-wild huh? [mimics monkey] Trailers are shaking. They're nice people they're just, what would you call 'em - rural? Backwoods, country? They're real nice, after a show one of these guys came up to me and said 'hey, you're great, you cracked me up, I was about to spit!'… Sorry? He said 'no I loved it, I'd like you to meet my wife and sister.' And there was one girl standing there… not a thumb between 'em. Goddamnit now what are the odds of that? Okay the girl had a little nub growin' in, but girls evolve quicker than guys.”

“(On being called cynical & skeptical): “I do have a healthy skepticism, I think we all should. But I think if you listen closely enough, you’ll find that my message, if I as a joke-blower could be pompous enough to have one, is that we’re all alright and it’s gonna work out. I don’t find that cynical at all.””

“Anybody can be a bum; all it takes is the right girl, the right bar and the right friends, and you are well… your buddies will see you off. They'll christen your dumpster for you.”

“I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.”

“Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day.”

“You know it's true that politics does make for strange bedfellows. I read a quote from Saddam Hussein two days after the [Clinton] election, we had to wait two days for him to quit gut laughing. "Aaaahahahahaha, the elephant is dead," Saddam Hussein says in his quote, "we have nothing against America, we just want to see George Bush beheaded and his head kicked down the road like a soccerball." And I thought: that's so weird, 'cause … that's what I wanted to see! Wow, me and Hussein, we're like this! Who would'a thunk it?!”

“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?”

“Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? There's another 90 percent of our brains that we have to illuminate.”

“I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, "Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great."”

“I quit smoking. It's very hard, but I'm glad I did. I'll tell you, this war against drugs in the US is the reason I quit because I got too fuckin' sick of being on the wrong side. The war against drugs, which actually is a war against civil rights, don't ever be fooled again. If they cared about us they'd get rid of the number one drug which is cigarettes; kills more people than crack, coke, and heroin combined, times 100. Legal.”

“People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime — who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?”

“This needs to be said: there never was a war. "How can you say that, Bill?" Well, a war is when two armies are fighting. So you can see, right there, there never was a war … People say to me, "Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves." Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps … sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day?”

“Another thing. This idea of "I'm offended". Well I've got news for you. I'm offended by a lot of things too. Where do I send my list? Life is offensive. You know what I mean? Just get in touch with your outer adult. And grow up. And move on. Reasonable people don't write letters because… A: They have lives and B, they understand it's just TV. C: If they see something they don't like, something they do like might be on later. I've seen many comics I've hated. I've seen many shows that have offended me. I've never written a letter. I just go about my life.”