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Quotes by Entertainer

"I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons."

"Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low."

"I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion."

"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."

"We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable."

"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 was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."

"Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post."

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

"I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost."

"My dignity and good television - they'll never meet."

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

"In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani."

"I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock."

"There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial."

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

"I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here."

"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

"Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it."

"Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language."

"Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."

"They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down."

"You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing."

"Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world."

"The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts."

"Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth."

"There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules."

"Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility."

"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."

"The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day."

"At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous."

"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."

"No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area."

"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."

"In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have."

"I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened."

"Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas."

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

"I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!"
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