Quotes About Entertainment

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.

I'm not a natural performer: I have a natural stage fright.

I definitely get stage fright.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

I don't know about other comedians, but I know that I never have felt anything like stage fright. I've felt nervous before big shows, but I think that's different than stage fright.

When I go onstage and I play or I'm out meeting a lot of people, I've got to get my stuff together. It's not actual stage fright.

Nothing that you see on 'Indian Idol' is ever staged or planned.

I can remember various stages when I wanted to be an artist, a football coach, and a musician but never an actor. However, I'll have to admit that now that I'm in this business I like it and would hate to have to give it up.

Radio in my beginning days was going into a room for four hours, playing a bunch of music, and screaming about the artists... radio now has come out of the radio, on to the net, and on to video and on stages; it's a multiplatform thing. It's nothing I expected ever to see.

If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.

So many times I've gone flying. I've fallen in audience members' laps, I've fallen down the stairs, I've had a shoe fall off live.

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

I watched 'Kojak' religiously with my father. It was a great bonding time. He loved shows where the stakes were high. Life and death, justice prevailing, things like that. I think that helped set me on the path to what I do now.

For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.

I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.