Limmy Quotes

Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.

I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

I'm not a stand-up comedian; I'm not a satirist.

I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.

When I'm on stage, that's a job. It's acting, it's faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes - I'm pretty good in this - dancing, just to entertain.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'