Occupation: Comedian Birth: July 21, 1957
I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine..
I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funn….
You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact..
Do you wanna see something swell?.
I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs..
If you build it, nerds will come..
You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the….
My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh..
Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed..
It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like a surfer in a wave, catching th….
The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes..
Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing a….
Apparently, I said what a lot of people are thinking and a lot of people have thanked me..
I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States..
It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good..
You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny..
I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for me. It's all part of it..
Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the ….
If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I’m taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn’t that like enough?.
The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has to answer questions from acto….
But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good..