Entertainer Quotes

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

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

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

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

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

You'll like this, not a lot, but you'll like it.

The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.

No one's on at my time but infomercials.

NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.