Quotes About Entertainment

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

Entertaining and being onstage is such a rush; it's amazing... and I just hope that it can last, and last for a long time.

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

When I'm onstage the joy is to try to be the best I can be, I'm there because I want it to be perfect.

Whether I'm performing in a club or onstage as Erika Jayne, whether I'm making records, whether I'm doing TV, I've got to entertain, and I have to take people away from their space and bring them into mine.

Joe Rogan has this podcast where he's talking astrophysics and lean BMI indexes and weird philosophy most of the time and yet, when you see him onstage, you're like, 'Oh, this guy is just a killer comedian.'

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.

My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.

I always loved the sheer physical act of being onstage.

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

I actually grew up watching a lot of these cartoons - a lot of the animated series. 'Batman: The Animated Series,' 'Justice League,' all the stuff that would come onto Cartoon Network.

As a kid, I always loved Mel Brooks' stuff - 'The 2,000 Year Old Man' record was something my dad put me onto.

I loved music before I stumbled onto acting.

It's much easier to get your material out to the public now than it was in 1988, when you basically had to get onto cable to have a joke heard across the country. Now all you need is an iPhone, and you can get your joke heard across the country.

The main thing going through my head when I step out onto any show is: 'Don't mess it up, Emma, don't mess it up.'

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.

I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

There were no TV musicals until we did Bette Midler 'Gypsy,' and the success of that opened the door for us to do the rest.