38 Quotes About Benny

Benny Hill's character is this twisted sexual deviant who professes his love for obese women, which I thought was so funny. There was nothing like that in this movie, so I thought it would be fun to play my character as someone who had no social graces, yet was embittered by the fact he was universally refused by women.

My parents were country & western fans, and the regular station would have been country. In Junior High I started liking jazz: swing and Benny Goodman.

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.

Benny (Jacobson), Erik (Crawford) and I knew early on exactly how hard it was to win on the road. Because of that, I think we bring that toughness to let everyone else know that it's not going to be easy.

It's awesome. I really wish Bode hadn't straddled and I would prefer to have won with Benny still in the race.

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.

When Benny is hitting like that, he gives the rest of us the confidence to keep shooting.

We call it swing jazz, ... Think Nat King Cole, Benny Goodman-style stuff. I grew up with those people around me. So it's natural that that is what I like doing.