Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Poehler

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

Debra Wilson

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

Debra Wilson

I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.

Debra Wilson

I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well.

Debra Wilson

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

Dennis Ross

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

Wanda Sykes

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.

Red Buttons

I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.

Red Buttons

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

Red Buttons

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Rosie O'Donnell

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Rosie O'Donnell

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

Randy Newman

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

Randy Newman

If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

Richard Lewis

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

Paul Reiser

But I really felt that, something about the lights going down, and the sense of community. I saw this movie at one festival, and there were 1700 people.

Paul Reiser

This is not the most right I've ever been.

Paul Reiser

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

Jay London

My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.

Mitch Hedberg

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. So which one is the real hero?

Steven Wright

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

Steven Wright

The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me.

Steven Wright

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

Steven Wright

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

Ben Stiller

I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

Ben Stiller

Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.

Carrot Top

Like I told Howard, I can't help it that I'm beautiful.

Jerry Stiller

I still haven't hit what I do best yet.