Quotes About Entertainment

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Hmmmm... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.

Driving from town to town, living in hotels, sometimes not going home during the week because you have an appearance - you really have to be dedicated to do this job.

When I'd travel by myself on airplanes and stay at hotels, I spent most of my days just watching movies.

I'm so excited to be a judge on MTV's 'America's Best Dance Crew.' Dancing and performing is what I do and being a judge on this show will allow me to give creative feedback to the newest and hottest dancers on the rise.

I was a huge David Letterman fan, even going back to when he was on NBC. My parents would only let me watch a half hour of television a day, so I would record Letterman the night before and then watch it when I came home from school. That's what made me want to do a T.V. show.

I can't believe that The Hour' has been axed.

Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.

When I hear the public's applause, I don't know where the voice comes from, but it does for three hours.

The only critic is a full house.

I definitely binge-watched 'House of Cards' when it first came out.

I'm into 'House of Cards.' 'Breaking Bad' - my God, did I binge on that!

We don't have a problem killing off characters on 'House of Cards.'

'House of Cards' is aiming for truth, not accuracy.

Who needs shows like 'House of Cards' or 'Scandal' when you can simply turn on the news?

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.