Kapil Sharma Quotes

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.

I'm a performer. I've tried everything there is.

One week you may be an actor, and the next week you had to be nimble enough to be a TV host. And the week after that, you might have to do some stand-up or be in an improv company or write and sing a song somewhere.

I am an entertainer.

The next RuPaul is an actor, a singer, a personality, not someone who can just get up at a bar. So I'm looking to do all those things.

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or a writer. Because what the hell do I do when I'm not working? Mope?

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

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 love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage.

I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.

Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That's going to be great. I'm trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I'm planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he's got that musical bone, too.

You either entertain an audience or you don't.