Quotes About Entertainment

I've never been the attention-getter of Black Eyed Peas.

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.

I think the thing I had going for me is a good pedigree and joke-writing ability. But a good pedigree, for the audience, doesn't matter past the first 90 seconds.

It's nice to be able to show how we are like in person and give a peek behind the curtain with 'Total Divas.' That's been my biggest feedback is how different than I am behind the scenes than I am onstage.

Working with one's boss is a totally different dynamic than working with a peer, especially when doing live or live-to-tape commentary of a genre as unique as sports-entertainment.

The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

The newspaper industry was built on the penny dreadfuls.

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

No matter what people say, your fans are the ones that come to watch the movie or come to your shows and that's the most important thing.

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

People say, 'If you open a movie online at the same time as in movie theatres, no one is going to go to the movies.' That's just not true. People love to go out and have a shared experience; they always will.

I'm not an impressionist, per se, but if you do any kind of comedy - and they ask you to do that, most of the time - there's some degree of appreciation, I think, involving somebody you like.

Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films.

That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

Sometimes if you do a multi-camera comedy, often there's rules, like, 'We've got to have three main laughs per page.'

The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.

We tend to perceive Hollywood as an industry that is trying to mitigate risk more and more.

In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.