Fred Armisen Quotes

I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.

I have love for the entertainment side of the world.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

Hollywood is a pretty edgy place.

I didn't really care about the entertainment industry. That wasn't my life.

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

People say, 'Oh, you're famous now, so you must go to L.A.' - I don't live in L.A. now - but it's like, why wouldn't you? The weather is amazing, the film industry's there, it's a great quality of life.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

I like L.A., I like the fans, I like to come out here to work.

I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained.