Jon Lovitz Quotes

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.

Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed.

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.

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

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

You want everyone to be great and funny. I'm not saying I'm great, but I'm funny.

I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States.

Apparently, I said what a lot of people are thinking and a lot of people have thanked me.

Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

If you build it, nerds will come.

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

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.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

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.

I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.

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

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

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?

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.