Quotes About Entertainment

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

When I think about the fact that I get to work with stars like Will Ferrell or Kurt Russell my eyes fill with tears of joy and appreciation. I hope the ride keeps going.

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

You might be a redneck if...you bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.

Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

There were a lot of stereotypes that I had to break of how people in the entertainment industry do business.

All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes.

I think 'Empire' is entertaining. It's a soap opera. Does it touch on stereotypes? Sure, it does... I don't know if that's necessarily good or bad.

I mean I do believe there is a responsibility of the entertainment industry in general with everything that is happening with the world, with violence and with climate change and with the stereotypes with Latinos or any community.

I think the stereotypes many black men are put under, even in the entertainment world, can sometimes have a dark or negative undertone.

I feel like when you call us drag queens, it stereotypes us. It puts us as labels and I feel like we are performers.

Shows in the '70s and '80s were a lot more provocative. Shows that are coming out now - like 'Black-Ish,' 'The Carmichael Show' - are showcasing people of color in a new way. It's not stereotypical.

I listen a lot to Howard Stern. Not the show, the interviews. He has a separate podcast of just interviews. They're fantastic.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.