In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, Keep your facts, Im going with the truth. – Stephen Colbert
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? – Stephen Colbert
I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry. – Stephen Colbert
No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close. – Stephen Colbert
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. – George Bernard Shaw