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Quotes by Entertainer

"It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this; this particular administration was better suited to handle that than the former."

"While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker."


"My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has."

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly."


"We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic."

"I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job."

"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does."

"It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself."


"So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed."

"He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage."

"There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire."

"For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that."

"Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity."

"Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!"

"Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively."

"You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games."

"My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera."

"Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald."


"The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media."


"It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade."

"If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am."

"In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh."

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."


"I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world."

"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."

"Quit worrying about your health. It will go away."

"Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23."


"The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in."

"The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea."

"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business."

"Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over."

"Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference."

"In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union."

"Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price."


"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money."

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

"And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along."

"I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners."


"If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal."

"I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account."

"The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else."

"Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family."

"Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out."

"I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad."
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