61 Quotes by Jon Lovitz

I like getting up in front of an audience. It’s fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can’t deny it. And it’s very funny, too. Sometimes you’re shy; you go somewhere and everyone’s looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

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?

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

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’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.

But Opera Man, I go, ‘Oh, crap! Why didn’t I think of that?’ Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

I feel lucky that I’m working at all. I don’t take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It’s all enjoyable for me. It’s all part of it.

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.

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.