Quotes About Entertainment

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.

The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.

The fans of our industry are extremely savvy. At the end of the day, they understand the business is a work. It's entertainment, nothing more.

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

People come up to me on the street and say, 'Men at Work is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life'. But, you know, I do have to question how many movies these people have seen.

The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.

I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it.

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

I do have a very chill - I can watch all my movies. A lot of people don't like to watch their work. I watch everything. All the time.

I work for a few at home who are devoted. People who are up now. Either they have some sort of bladder problem or they're extremely drunk. This is my crowd, these are the people I hope to get.