Quotes from John Pinette

I did a lot of dues-paying in L.A. that I didn't pay in Boston because I was kind of a success there. It was all worth it, I guess.

I started off doing impressions. It was a comfortable way to get started.

I don't think most comics look at their early stuff and think, 'wow... that was great!'

I grew up poor. To me, interior decorating is my big-screen TV, my couch and my Simpsons poster.

I don't really sing.

I would describe my comedy as my skewed comic perception of life.

Let's face it, it's a skinny world out there.

I'm one of the larger mammals. Everyone in my family was large, mom and dad, my two older sisters. If you meet a skinny person in my family, you say, 'And you are married to who?'

I do a lot of dialects in my act, including Irish, because I grew up in a neighbourhood that was predominantly Irish and Italian.

I'm a big guy, but I don't do 'I'm so fat that... ' jokes.

A great deal of my comedy comes from the trials and tribulations of growing up a big kid in the Boston area.

I eat healthy. The only problem is late-night eating. It's the Sumo Diet, they eat and go to sleep and that's how they get them that big.

I grew up in Malden. Genetically, I was born to be as close to Kelly's Roast Beef as possible.

My family is trying to drag me kicking and screaming into the normal world. Please, I live in hotel rooms.

My philosophy in life is just to laugh as much as possible through the good and the bad - to laugh at the tragedies as well as the triumphs.

I worked at a mortgage company, and after I left, most of the office went to jail.

In standup, you look for a common ground that people have.

I have no problem joking about who I am.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.

I've been heavy my whole life. I've been up and down, and I can tell you that down is much better.

On the set, you do a movie shoot, you go, 'OK, was that OK, how was that?' You dont know, you're not sure.

Opening for Mr. Sinatra in 1991 enabled me to do Vegas more as an opening act. I did the Superdome with him, probably nine arenas over a year and a half, and his second-to-last appearance at the Desert Inn in Vegas.

I made $225.81 a week as an accountant, and I went to $400 a week as a stand-up. I was up to $800 a week when I went out to L.A. In L.A., I made $25.

I guest-starred on 'Alf.' I played a stand-up comic Howie Anderson.