Entertainer Quotes

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.

A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

You didn't want to laugh, did you? It wasn't very funny, was it?

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

There are no limits, love, there are no limits.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

Don't get too close, it hurts.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

I don't think the First Amendment trumps everything.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I'm not a Victoria's Secret model who can wear anything.