Robert B. Weide Quotes

I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'

You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.

There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.

I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.

I've kind of been in a video game, I've kind of been an action figure. It was actually a Barbie doll, so that's why I say kind of, but if I can get made fun of on 'South Park' or 'Family Guy,' then I'll know that I've done something good with my life.

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality.

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.

Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny.

This is the joke of me being a part of 'Lost': I haven't met three-quarters of that cast.

If you go on the Internet and type in 'Lee Ryan one liners,' I think I'm on par with Gandhi.

If I was a research scientist, I'd want people to say, 'You know what, he's a great research scientist, that Ricky Gervais. He's really good, really good.' You know, I'd go to award ceremonies for research scientists and go, 'Yeah, I really worked hard, yeah.' It's brilliant.

If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.