Fred Allen Quotes

I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

I've seen some beyond-amazing performers do karaoke who should be on stage somewhere, and I've seen people who you rather didn't enter the bar. That's the beautiful thing about it; it's for everybody.

All actors may not be stars, but all stars are actors, and I can vouch for that.

That's kind of the beauty of WWE, is everyone's got their own story, they all have their own path in getting here. It's just a very diverse and unique locker room.

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

I think actors, athletes, and anyone who's a public speaker is very amazing or fascinating to me.

'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other's art and who your real identity is - name, gender, hair color, anything.

I think I'd always been interested in performing.

Whether you're old or young or white or black or however, funny is funny, and people want to see those videos.

I never joined the TV industry for fame.

Every actor tries to come to Broadway be it Richard Burton, Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor or Shirley McClain.

Any sort of performance was always what I was really born to do.

My dream job growing up was always to be an artist. It wasn't even that I would be a rapper or singer; I just knew I would be a public figure.

It's easier to get on show business, the hard part is to maintain. Nobody stays famous forever.

Each couple is its own vaudeville act.

I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

Just because you don't know how to do stand-up doesn't mean you don't know how to put on a show.

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.

Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't.

Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.