Jemaine Clement Quotes

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I'm a total performer.

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

I love to entertain an audience.

In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way.

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.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

I got a few laughs and decided I was going to act.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

Real entertainers love to entertain.

I feel like I am a true entertainer and performer.

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

My story is comic because I've spent vast amounts of effort trying to become a Hollywood screenwriter and made no direct effort on making my son a movie actor.

I pride myself on the energy I put on stage.

Anytime you give a man in a wig a microphone, anything can happen.

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.

As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.