Jon Lovitz Quotes

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

The whole – it’s the economy’s bad. It’s bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years ago in a horrible economy. I created jobs. And we just started breaking even after a year and a half, barely. For that entire time, I have had to pay the difference of what we owe in rent and taxes and everything out of my own pocket.

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you’re on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it’s – I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it’s like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it’s a false statistic.There’s nobody that is wealthy saying, let’s go get the people that aren’t. First of all, there’s no versus. He’s creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

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

I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. Now he’s changing. All he keeps saying is millionaires and billionaires don’t pay their fair share of taxes.

I really didn’t want to leave the show, but I got a chance to do a movie, which meant I would have had to miss two shows, and at the time Lorne had a policy where you can’t miss shows, so I left.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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