Bill Cosby

People say to me, ‘Do you know who you look like?’ And I say, ‘I’m really tired of looking like that guy.’

Bill Cosby

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

Bill Cosby

Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

Bill Cosby

Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, ‘If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn’t have any material.’ He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.

Bill Cosby

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Bill Cosby

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don’t believe the kids should be given homework.

Bill Cosby

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

Bill Cosby

Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Bill Cosby

Telemarketers tell me I sound like Bill Cosby.

Bill Cosby

The absolute truth is that there is no power in celebrity.

Bill Cosby