Jack Black Quotes

We're entertainers, not just singers!

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

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

Real entertainers love to entertain.

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

I do my best creating on stage.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

I'm a total performer.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!'

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

I see myself as an entertainer.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

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 aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.