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Quotes by Entertainer

"Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one."

"The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs."

"One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself."

"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."

"As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it."

"Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."

"Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word."

"The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something."

"What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff."

"If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention."

"If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war."

"My home has always been show business."

"You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up."

"The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other."

"A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on."

"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."

"When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time."

"As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal."

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."

"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well."

"And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave?"

"We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted."

"The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody."

"I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it."

"The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'"

"'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments."

"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."

"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."

"Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter."

"I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation."

"My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined."

"So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them."

"The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed."

"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television."

"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."

"I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food."

"Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself."

"If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that."

"People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife."

"Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success."

"I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen."

"We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues."

"I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world."
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