When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.


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If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.
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Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
JEFF FOXWORTHY
'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ...
JEFF KINNEY
I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I wa...
JEFF BEZOS
Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity&#...
JEFF GRUBB
When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civ...
JEFF GREENFIELD
You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so...
JEFF TWEEDY
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out...
JEFF BEZOS
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cy...
JEFF BRIDGES
It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you...
JEFF KOONS
There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even ...
JEFF BRIDGES
The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now.
JEFF ZUCKER
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ...
JEFF KINNEY
Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and ...
JEFF FORTENBERRY
Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN
The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the gover...
JEFF DUNCAN
While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential...
JEFF DUNCAN
Monkeys can't talk, stupid!
JEFF KINNEY
What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themse...
JEFF NICHOLS
I think Vice is vastly overrated. And I think that if you are interested in reaching young males, wh...
JEFF ZUCKER
Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they...
JEFF LANDRY
Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidat...
JEFF GREENFIELD
One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can hav...
JEFF GOODELL
I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am...
JEFF BUCKLEY
I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other w...
JEFF LINDSAY
I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
JEFF GOLDBLUM
You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remem...
JEFF FOXWORTHY
Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a ...
JEFF BUCKLEY
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom tim...
JEFF BEZOS
Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if y...
JEFF FOXWORTHY
People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.
JEFF FORTENBERRY
If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whi...
JEFF BECK
It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt tha...
JEFF FISHER
For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a ver...
JEFF LINDSAY
There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we...
JEFF GREENFIELD
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music indust...
JEFF TWEEDY
For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by t...
JEFF HARDY
From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off moun...
JEFF GOODELL
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ...
JEFF BUCKLEY
I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a thea...
JEFF NICHOLS
Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this w...
JEFF MACNELLY
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensiti...
JEFF SESSIONS
I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY
Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of the...
JEFF ZASLOW
But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the...
JEFF VANDERMEER
I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better th...
JEFF LINDSAY
You can't do everything but you can do something!
JEFF DIXON
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
JEFF GOLDBLUM
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
JEFF VALDEZ
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
JEFF PESIS
Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY
Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.
JEFF DEWAR