I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.
I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.
I got a few laughs and decided I was going to act.
Light-hearted films are not content-driven films.
I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.
If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.
Comedy was an easy choice for me because I didn't have a career.
I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.
People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage... it's a buzz.
Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
Not only do I have fun in the ring, but I have fun walking out to the ring. I have fun walking away from the ring.
For me, the most attractive thing in a man is the ability to make me laugh.
I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a certain type of person or being very cerebral.
I think people are surprised to learn that I'm pretty goofy and pretty funny.
'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.
I am an official slow-roasted, honey-baked ham. Ever since I was a kid, my thing is that I love attention. All my report cards are like, 'He would be wonderful, but he just can't stop being a clown in class.'
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
The key is to be a personality outside of the ring and then bring that personality with you inside the ring.
