John Hodgman Quotes

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.

I like entertaining people. I want to make big entertainment.

An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.

I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained.