Quotes from John Pinette

I'd done the movie 'The Punisher,' and Travolta was in that, though we didn't have scenes together. We met at the premiere and he's a very nice man.

All I'm really doing is talking about going on diets and... just about being a big guy. Why should that be any different from a comic that says, 'I was an alcoholic,' or, 'I was in a bad relationship?'

I really am part whale. I want to do a movie like 'The Incredible Mr. Limpet' and join a family of whales.

Call it fate, call it God, I call it God, but I think that I found what I was comfortable in this world with doing.

I have a tendency to be larger than life.

Singing on Broadway terrified me more than anything I've done.

You know, working with puppets - there is just something about it. Because the puppet takes on its own personality.

I talk about my life; it is the funniest thing I can think of.

Sometimes you do have to throw caution to the wind and you really have to not be afraid to suck.

When you're big to the point that you're unhealthy, it's like you see life through a window. You can look at everything going on, but now I can experience it.

The guy who made the shoes for 'Hairspray' said putting shoes on me was like putting a pump on a ham. I found out that if I ever was to dress like a woman, I would not be buying off the rack.

I just feel like there are a lot of funny things that happen in this world and I guess that's for the good and the bad.

I watch a lot of CNN and the Food Network. Now, I'm learning how to cook healthy - when I was a kid low-fat was a Chinese gangster.

I liked Jonathan Winters for his character development.

I was a very bad accountant. I knew the book theory, but I didn't have the heart for it. I did it for six months, and my job was to distract the auditors with jokes.

Gravity is a law. I respect the law.

I denied my comic thing there for awhile. I always made people laugh, but my family said that's not the real world, I had to put on a suit and tie and be serious.

For some reason, people enjoy seeing me lose my cherub-like demeanor.

I have issues with food and weight and I can make that funny. The audience loves it. I have fun with it.

No matter what, I'll never be tiny.

At home, I have a healthy regular diet... But on the road, you find yourself at 11 o'clock at night, after a great show at a performing-arts center, and there's nothing open but a pizza place.

Just coming to L.A. to be a comic and an actor, it's not the kindest world to come to. There's a lot of rejection, which I'm not used to. I hate rejection, but it's about 90 percent of the business.

I walk into a Home Depot and it's like everything in there needs assembly. I start hyperventilating. I need the inhaler.

You go out, you order a steak. What do they do? They bring you a salad. They don't even charge you anything for it, cause it ain't worth anything, cause it ain't food!