Quotes About Entertainment

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.

I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.

When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show.

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

We can at least go backstage where it's cool and get rest, but the fans have to stay and watch in the heat. It's not me mom…it's the fans who have it hard.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.