Peter Scolari Quotes

I don't have any juggling or fire-eating skills.

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.

For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work.

I'm one of those performers who has done just about everything except juggle, and I'm working on that.

I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester's Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart's Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.

I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

I want to be one of those old-fashioned entertainers.

I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.

I really enjoyed watching the 'Being Farrah' special, and I think fans did, too.

When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.

In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.

It's hard to do a variety show. It's hard to do all that small talk and make it sound real.

Some people just come to a rally to see the stars. But some do take us seriously. They have been watching us on the screen and they know the conviction that goes into our acting.

The first thing I wanted to be was a clown.

IIFA is a great global platform.

Comics were always the lowest rung on the ladder, front of cloth at the Royal Variety Performance. What that means is you're only there so Take That can set up behind the curtains.

Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows, if you do see a sketch group or character, it's written specifically for that variety show and usually written around the host of the show or a celebrity.

I actually went to circus school as a child. I think my specialty was walking on the big ball. You know the big ball you can walk on? Yes, I was quite good at it.

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!