Douglas Hodge Quotes

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've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

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

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.

I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if there were ten minutes to lunch, and the teacher was done with the lesson, he'd say, 'Okay, Leo, get up there and do something.'

I'm more interested in - I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it's more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I'm more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I'll best be received.

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It really isn't hard unless you're not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself.

Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.