Elvis Mitchell Quotes

If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it's a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing.

I wasn't the crazy kid bouncing off the walls, I would just sit back a make comments and I made people laugh.

Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.

Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character.

Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

I can be bought, but not bored.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

No one will ever be as good as Phil Hartman. He was such an amazing genius, and may be the best sketch performer of all time.

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.

Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.

It's a crazy game. And it's a beautiful game.

The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.

I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.

There was never a moment in George Carlin's career where he dipped below an A+. When he came out with the "Hippie Dippie Weatherman" on The Tonight Show, I mean, it seems so mundane now, but it was in black and white TV and the whole bit was that this guy smoked tons of grass and was a terrible weather man. "Forecast for tonight? Dark."

[Chris] Farley was a dear friend, and we remained close right up until the end. You know, there was nobody more fearless comedically than Chris. And that's saying a lot, because I'm friendly with a lot of funny people.

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit