Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby
William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr.is an American former stand-up comedian, actor, author and singer-songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth12 July 1937
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
want what-you-want ifs
If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.
people study
Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.
god ocean humorous
After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."
father games fingers
You know my father's favorite game? Come here and pull my finger.
sex humorous bird
The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.
giving parent house
I wanted to give the house back to the parents.
football children believe
When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.
marriage queens war
The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.
people quality bookstores
The measure ov overexposure is not how many times people see you on TV or in the bookstores. It's whether you can maintain the quality of your entertainment. If you can, people will always be glad to see you.
senior baby men
In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.
thinking differences race
I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.
two laughing people
Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution.
dog humorous want
You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.
mother children father
I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcoms—it had nothing to do with the color of them—I just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.