Quotes About Andy Kaufman

A lot of the things I loved the most growing up were, on the surface, kind of challenging or impenetrable. I loved Andy Kaufman, and half his shows, people would walk out in a rage. I love punk rock, which is notoriously music that doesn't always sound very inviting or appealing but, I think, unquestionably has the most heart, the most integrity.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I really enjoyed doing stand-up. Andy Kaufman was a big hero of mine. I tried to do conceptual stuff like he tried to do.

Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler's match was the one thing people believed most about wrestling in the last 35 years.

My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.

Any wrestler who will piledrive Lawler and injure him like he did me gets five thousand dollars from me!

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.

Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.

I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.

I wish I could have seen Andy Kaufman live.