Quotes from John Oliver
I would hate to meet myself at 15.
- John Oliver
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
- John Oliver
You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
- John Oliver
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
- John Oliver
I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
- John Oliver
Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.
- John Oliver
Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.
- John Oliver
You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
- John Oliver
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.
- John Oliver
I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
- John Oliver
It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.
- John Oliver
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
- John Oliver