Famous quotes by Entertainers

"Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly, it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"I think I'd be pretty easy to write for"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and sometimes very painful"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear"

G. Gordon Liddy, Entertainer

"I think there's a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"Regis can do anything these young punks can do. I fit right in there with my Fox people. They want Regis to dance, Regis will dance. They want Regis to lift weights with them, Regis will lift weights with them. Whatever they want!"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I've done the best I can with the morning show. I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, you have the morning papers, you know, it's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I knew that the show was coming and they wanted me to have a co-host. And so I asked Mary Hart and she was one of the first. Before that it was Sarah Purcell then Cindy Garvey.Then Mary Hart, then Cindy Garvey again here in New York, then Anne Abernathy and then Kathy Lee, who stayed 15 years. And now Kelly has been there eight"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it, and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and I am going to continue the ongoing process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear"

G. Gordon Liddy, Entertainer

"I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"A lot of guys, really, I get the feeling, don't care whether you like their show or not, you know. I want people to enjoy what I do, and understand what I'm doing is for their enjoyment, it's all I can ask for"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman"

G. Gordon Liddy, Entertainer

"The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things"

G. Gordon Liddy, Entertainer

"I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of,' and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

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