Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cavett

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

John Grant

Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

Alan Cumming

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Bette Davis

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

Frank Sinatra

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Philip Larkin

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

Miranda Richardson

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

John Lahr

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Lou Holtz

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Don Ohlmeyer

Veronica's Closet' will do a 27 share on a Thursday night and it's dismissed. And (Comedy Central's) 'South Park' does a two share and it's on the cover of 'Newsweek' magazine.

Don Adams

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all

David Suchet

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bernie Mac

Comedy has been so good to me.

Bernie Mac

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

David Krumholtz

I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

Ariana Grande

I was definitely inspired by Madonna.

Pauline Flynn

Well be inspired by these poles and their messages for years to come.

Joseph Cook

She was the first person who got me involved and kind of inspired me,

Rinko Kikuchi

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

Brenda Valdes

She really inspired us to do what we are doing.

Jessie Miller

She is what inspired me. I was so angry.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Evan Hunter

I can't say which of the writers inspired me the most, but it was probably Hemingway.