Quotes About Entertainment

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.

I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.

There's this misconception that comedy and music go together. They don't. Comedians can't compete with rock stars; they're just not on the same level. Rock stars will always be cooler. They will always get more girls.

When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now... Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.'

I know a lot of Disney Channel stars. I hang out with Debbie Ryan. Me and Ryan Newman hang out a lot, and I know a lot of them from 'Friends for Change' - we all meet from there. It's cool. Everybody is like family at Disney Channel. All the stars are so fun and nice, so it's really fun to hang out with them.

I'm always playing a role, whether it's the role of the mayor, the role of a news anchor, or a role of a crazy talk-show host. But there was a specific function. 'On Dancing With The Stars', I had nothing to do but be me, schlepping around the floor. And when I host 'America's Got Talent', that's really me just talking to regular folks.

As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.

I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'