61 Quotes by Jon Lovitz

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?

I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.