Quotes from Andy Kaufman

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

Tank you veddy much.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs on stage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

I never told a joke in my life.

Clifton and I don't even look alike. He smokes and drinks, and I do neither. He's a big fat guy, and if it weren't for me, no one would know who he is.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

The more they hate you, the better you're doing.

Any wrestler who will piledrive Lawler and injure him like he did me gets five thousand dollars from me!

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

I just want the audience to have a wonderful, happy feeling inside them and leave with big smiles on their faces.

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.

I'm from Hollywood. That's where we make movies and TV shows... I'm not from down here in men-fus ten-uh-see, okay?

I'm just singing a song, and if people want to laugh, that's their business.

If I was going to be a little boy about it, I'd go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it'd be 20 or 30 years.

I'm having everything. I'm a vegetarian, too. But in my mother's house, I eat whatever I'm served.