Alex Borstein Quotes

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

I remember, when I saw the first 'Austin Powers' movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.

My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'

I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

Laughter is America's most important export.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Just look around; you can't help but laugh at something.

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.

Anything to do with 'The Office' I would revisit.

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

Thank God for Stifler's mom. I don't know if life would be this fun if I didn't have that.

Monty Python has such a huge following... myself included.