Quotes About Entertainment

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

Action alone doesnt work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

Actually they [ Netflix] were telling us to push it further and I've never gotten a nod like that from anybody in the industry, so it's been awesome to work with them. I'm very happy where we're at.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

I love Halloween! I love it so much that I used to work at a haunted house every year.

I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

I would love to work with Kristin Wiig one day. I find her hilarious, and I totally idolize her.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

IIFA is always involved in charity, and that's why it's a great thing that I am a part of IIFA and will continue to work along with them.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.

I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.