In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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JASON ALEXANDER I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
ELVIS PRESLEY I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.
TRACEY ULLMAN People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
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SID CAESAR How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?
MAUREEN O'HARA When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admi...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfi...
CHRIS BENZ I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.
LENNON PARHAM What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie G...
BUDDY HACKETT My dream is to get someone like Carol Burnett on the show.
MARC CHERRY Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.
KATHERINE PARKINSON Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
CAROLINE RHEA Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant...
CHUCK JONES I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny...
BRUCE FORSYTH I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny ...
MARLO THOMAS Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
GARRY SHANDLING I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and...
JENNY SLATE I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV...
NATALIE COLE I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love...
DEBRA MESSING I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedia...
DEMETRI MARTIN If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the gre...
JAMIE FARR I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, ...
STEVE MARTIN There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man ...
ELLIE KEMPER Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhar...
ELLEN DEGENERES I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I ...
DEBRA MESSING All the money goes right back into the community. It really has turned into an annual event in Gleas...
BOB DEMESY So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers...
CHELSEA PERETTI I loved Lucille Ball growing up.
GRAHAM NORTON I loved scary movies growing up.
KATIE FEATHERSTON Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language...
ALAN RUDOLPH The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were lookin...
TIM CONWAY I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe...
LAINIE KAZAN I am sorry that during the excitement of a 'live 3 hour television event' the wonderful film piece w...
GIL CATES After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan m...
JACKIE CHAN It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' ...
ROBERT BRUSCA I loved 'Roger Rabbit' growing up.
STEPHANIE LEONIDAS I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running ...
SISSY SPACEK Growing up, my inspirations were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, all these martial arts legends. I wanted to...
TIGER SHROFF Since I have been gone so long, my greatest memories are in high school my growing up, ... I was inv...
JOE SEARS I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,...
KATIE FEATHERSTON After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Ch...
JACKIE CHAN I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.
KRISTIN DAVIS They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at...
PHIL SILVERS Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.
PHIL SILVERS Lisa is one of the funniest comedians. She absolutely killed me. I loved it.
RON WHITE I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner...
LEAH REMINI Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
LARRY KING I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all tho...
JOSEPH ABBOUD There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Bu...
DANA CARVEY I loved going to superhero films growing up - you come home, and you pretend to be those people, and...
MAHERSHALA ALI Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched...
CHRISTINE LAKIN One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
BRIT MARLING We like to look at it in terms of what resourcesincluding people, time, stuff and moneywe can co...
ALLYSON PEERMAN Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better...
LOUIE ANDERSON After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. The...
DANA CARVEY He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
PLUTARCH The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa...
BILLY CRYSTAL When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.
MARC MARON I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, ...
JENNY SLATE I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
WARREN LITTLEFIELD As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watchi...
CHEECH MARIN Comedy industry people, like club owners, comedians, managers, bookers and the like, all know it's h...
JUDY BROWN Still holding up pretty good for humpies [pinks] and silvers, and some of the silvers they're catchi...
GARY RYAN In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
SID CAESAR The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, HE was a ge...
SID CAESAR to show your versatility.
SID CAESAR I didn't allow cue cards because, to my mind, when you're acting with someone you listen when they s...
SID CAESAR I didn't allow cue cards because, to my mind, when you're acting with someone you listen when they s...
SID CAESAR The remote control changed our lives, ... The remote control took over the timing of the world. That...
SID CAESAR Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
SID CAESAR The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
SID CAESAR The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And th...
SID CAESAR Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I alway...
STEWART O'NAN The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It'...
ELVIS MITCHELL I'm that kid in the corner all f***ed up and I wanna so I'm gonna
BEASTIE BOYS Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled beca...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.
FRED WILLARD Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE I loved growing up in Washington, but I have been a diehard, 100 percent 49ers fan since I was 11.
MICHAEL MINA I'm a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can't afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son...
VICTORIA AVEYARD It's something that was a part of my growing up and my childhood, ... I loved the hall.
TAMMY WYNETTE All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turn...
HALSEY I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say,...
SHIRI APPLEBY I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought tha...
PAUL REISER I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted...
SABRINA LLOYD Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I le...
JEFF DUNHAM I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times...
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SORAYA DIASE COFFELT I loved the story of these three characters [Wood's American Jonathan, his Ukrainian interpreter Ale...
ELIJAH WOOD When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the ...
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TONY HALE People actually have come in to see Carol.
CHERYL MCCANN I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. An...
DANIEL HANDLER It got to a point in life i let go of all the pointless people in my life, those who loved me, i sho...
OLASOT I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden....
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ED HELMS I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant...
ED HELMS When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly diffic...
ED HELMS I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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ED HELMS Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my ...
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ED HELMS I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
ED HELMS I'm a very jaded and cynical person.
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ED HARRIS I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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ED HARRIS I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around an...
ED HARRIS I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
ED HARRIS I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
ED HARRIS For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
ED HARRIS A lot of films come out before they're finished.
ED HARRIS If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn...
ED HARRIS I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff d...
ED HARRIS I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fasc...
ED HARRIS You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil...
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