Jon Lovitz
Jon Lovitz
Jonathan M. "Jon" Lovitz is an American actor, comedian and singer. He is best known as a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990. He starred as Jay Sherman in the cult animated comedy series The Critic and has appeared in numerous other television series and films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth21 July 1957
CountryUnited States of America
feel-better laughing tough-times
I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.
jobs lucky granted
I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for me. It's all part of it.
design style mind
The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has to answer questions from actors, design, set, lighting, every department throughout the pre-production, production, and post-production, because they've got it in their mind. They've got to know exactly what they want and what the style and story of the movie is. It's them. They make it.
jealous thinking people
Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.
nerd ifs
If you build it, nerds will come.
drama character actors
In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top of it. You, the actor, are aware of the comedy but the character is oblivious. And you have to have a sense of humor.
acting rooms going-for-it
It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like a surfer in a wave, catching the wave, going for it every time, there's electricity in the room, it doesn't feel like acting, you ride the wave.
crazy real play
Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.
sex
Do you wanna see something swell?
broke wealthy being-broke
Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.
thinking people responsible
Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?
dream opposites actors
I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
thinking people said
Apparently, I said what a lot of people are thinking and a lot of people have thanked me.
nice father struggle
I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.