Bresha Webb Quotes

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.

When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.

It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing a bit of piano, running a quiz show - it just becomes part of the job.

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and my brother, being the patriarch, he paved the way.

I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films.

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

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

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

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.

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.

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

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.

I wanted to be Bob Hope or Red Skelton from the time I was 8 years old.