David Dobrik Quotes

Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

I'm going to be the next David Frost.

It's always been a dream of mine to have my own show.

I became popular as Bua because of 'Comedy Nights with Kapil.'

I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

When I was younger, I definitely had more of a dream, as they say on 'American Idol,' that I would have my own show. I always thought that that was something that would happen, that eventually I would just get my own show because anyone who wants their own show should get their own show.

I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.

Working with people like Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis is such a blessing because I've watched them a great deal. I grew up with 'Friends' and always aspired to work with someone from that cast. Jason is just such an amazing comedian.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

I learned the biggest lesson just watching Ed McMahon, watching him watch Mr. Carson's monologue.

The world that I would want to get into would be acting. In the beginning, I would do stuff as myself if I had the opportunity to host events - host, like, a talk show. Something like that, I think, would be super amazing.

It always makes me laugh to think that I get to sit around and chat with people like Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi and get paid for it.

It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.

We will try to honor David Letterman achievement by doing the best show we can.And occasionally making the network very mad at us.

I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.

Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good.

I loved doing the 'King of Queens', I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

Before I was on 'Idol,' I just sat at home and played video games all day long. Now I get to travel and work towards my dream. It's the best feeling ever.