Jeff Dunham Quotes

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started selling records, it was an incredible, strange dream.

I wanted to stop while we were still getting big hits. The only thing I miss is the actual performing.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

We never set out to be this punk rock band that's going to stay small and tour in a van forever. We wanted to take our band to a level where we could do everything we want to do.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.

You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.

I've toured the world with David Foster and all kinds of different people. It's been a great ride, and I don't think it's about to stop any time soon.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

I grew up always wanting to be a part of 'Idol,' and I never thought I would make it as far as I did. I was really lucky, and it's given me the opportunities that I have now.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

You get very comfortable doing the open mic circuit, turning up to the same places and playing to 20 people. In that situation, it won't matter if you aren't great on that night because no one will really remember who you are. Then suddenly you are doing rooms to 400 people and you have to up your game.