Andy Kaufman
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?Collection: Sad
I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.Collection: Sad
I'm from Hollywood. That's where we make movies and TV shows... I'm not from down here in men-fus ten-uh-see, okay?Collection: Movies
What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.
The more they hate you, the better you're doing.
If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.
I would like to do the Elvis Presley.
I'm an open book.
Tank you veddy much.
There's no drama like wrestling.
While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.
When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.
I never told a joke in my life.
Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.
Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.
Clifton and I don't even look alike. He smokes and drinks, and I do neither. He's a big fat guy, and if it weren't for me, no one would know who he is.
If I was going to be a little boy about it, I'd go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it'd be 20 or 30 years.
It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.
I just want the audience to have a wonderful, happy feeling inside them and leave with big smiles on their faces.
I'm just singing a song, and if people want to laugh, that's their business.
I'm having everything. I'm a vegetarian, too. But in my mother's house, I eat whatever I'm served.
My parents would say, 'Why don't you go out and play?' and I would say, 'I can't! I'm putting on my shows!'
I thought Doodyville was inside of the television. You know, like, if television was this box - and if I went inside the box that was a television, I'd be in Doodyville.
Any wrestler who will piledrive Lawler and injure him like he did me gets five thousand dollars from me!
I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriouslyCollection: World
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.Collection: Country
When you go through a tunnel - you're going on a train - you go through a tunnel, the tunnel is dark, but you're still going forward. Just remember that. But if you're not going to get up on stage for one night because you're discouraged or something, then the train is going to stop. Everytime you get up on stage, if it's a long tunnel, it's going to take a lot of times of going on stage before things get bright again. You keep going on stage, you go forward. EVERY night you go on stage.Collection: Dark
I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.Collection: Voice
Theres no drama like wrestling.Collection: Drama
The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.Collection: People
Whenever I play a role, whether it's good or bad, an evil person or nice person, I believe in being a purist and going all the way with the role. If I'm going to be a villainous wrestler, I believe in going all the way with it and not breaking character and not giving away to the audience that I'm playing a role. I believe in playing it straight to the hilt.Collection: Nice
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didnt think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?Collection: Mother
That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.Collection: Fun
We're hoping that this will also be the key to starting community events in a place where the whole community can come together. We've been working with the town on the total renovation.Collection: Keys
That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it’s off-season, let’s do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.Collection: Fun