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Victoria Jackson
American
Comedian
About the author
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Bible
#Comfort
#Peace
#Hearing
#Joy
It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Life
#Fun
#Being
#Christian
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Reality
#Entertainment
Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Successful
#Fun
#Example
Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Movies
#Women
Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Now
#People
#Fun
#Money
#Mind
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#God
#Man
#Religion
So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Life
#Hope
#Death
#Christian
Sometimes I like to vent.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Hollywood
#Money
I've never been in the music industry, only acting.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Acting
#Music
They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Will
#Bible
#Open
#Meaning
When you go on an audition it's very frightening.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Job
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Life
#Pretty
#Fantasy
#Business
#Guitar
I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Being
#Music
#Sound
Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Hurt
#Conscience
I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Trouble
#Christian
But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Life
#Will
#Christ
#Honor
#Pressure
#Goal
#Happiness
I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Now
#Life
#Love
#College
#Romantic
I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Church
I think abortion is murder.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Abortion
#Murder
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Hollywood
#Reason
#Girls
I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Thought
#Church
#Lady
#Contrast
I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Night
I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Talent
#Christian
Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Film
#Act
I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#Drugs
Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.
Victoria Jackson,
American
Comedian
#People
#Hate