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Quotes by Entertainer


"From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true."


"I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time."

"It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence."

"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."

"I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country."

"Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before."

"I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world."

"The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds."

"If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities."

"I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off."

"One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar."

"I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good."

"What I do in my book is let people know about these programs."

"I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right."

"It's good to do something for Americans for once."


"You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government."

"Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so."

"I think people of lesser talent will become stars."

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile."

"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."

"I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want."


"Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power."

"Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter."


"So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash."

"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary."

"There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work."

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."

"I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career."

"This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach."

"I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed."

"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."

"I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people."

"No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere."
Time,

"Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life."

"It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest."

"Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season."

"I have been blessed with working with the best in the business."


"Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people."

"Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking."
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