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Quotes by Entertainer

"When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience."

"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."

"Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation."

"The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'"

"If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless."

"Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal."

"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"

"I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular."

"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."

"The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army."

"The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age."

"As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market."

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

"Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story."

"I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it."

"Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah."

"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."

"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."

"People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous."

"On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics."

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."

"For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people."

"Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood."

"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."

"Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him."

"I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic."

"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."

"Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom."

"Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid."

"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

"I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap."

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

"Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records."

"The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business."

"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity."

"Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices."

"Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator."

"So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was."

"As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling."

"In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad."
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