Quotes About Entertainment

When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.

I was so focused on being serious. All the guys I enjoyed watching as a kid were in that vein - Ron Simmons, Scott Steiner, Vader.

Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.

Before going onstage you can always feel the adrenaline pouring through your veins.

My great-grandmother was in one of the first girl bands, in the 1920s. Their outfits were mental: velvet bloomers with big ribbons and headpieces. They were brilliant.

I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of that - the stuff that I grew up reading.

Most municipalities grow up around commerce; there's a harbor, or the train stops there. Venice, CA was founded for fun.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

I'd love to make a movie with Tom Hardy. If we ever got the chance to make a Venom movie together, that would be super-cool, but his movie would have to take place in the MCU because I'm not giving up my ticket in the MCU.

I think we can all agree it would be pretty amazing to see Spider-Man and Venom face off in a film.

Audiences want comedy that has no venom. They want to have a laugh without it becoming twee.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

I'm always going to have the puppets, probably not for the rest of my life, but I'm not going to stop doing ventriloquism anytime soon. I'm just going to add singing, recording songs, and maybe playing in a TV show.

That was my goal going on 'AGT,' was to keep ventriloquism alive and get it more common, to put it out in the open so kids like me who wanted to pursue it as a passion... can do it.

I love singing - singing was basically kind of my passion before ventriloquism.

What has been so great out of all of the success is that I inspired so many people to take up ventriloquism, especially little kids.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

Ventriloquism today is in a slump.

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.

I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business.

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes 'real.' Then don't forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything.

I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chance to write for a character.

I started with Katie, a doll I got on eBay on my 10th birthday. I don't use her anymore. I've got a new Katie now, a real ventriloquist's puppet.