I wish I could have seen Andy Kaufman live.

I really enjoyed doing stand-up. Andy Kaufman was a big hero of mine. I tried to do conceptual stuff like he tried to do.

— Matt Besser

I do strive to be the Andy Kaufman of TV news.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I was obsessed with Andy Kaufman. The idea of watching someone perform and thinking: 'Is this real? What part of the joke are we…

— Megan Stalter

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who…

— Courtney Love

Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about…

— Jerry Lawler

I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

I really loved Andy Kaufman growing up, like every comedy person does. I like when sometimes the audience isn't quite sure what's supposed to…

— Mike O'Brien

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

— David Cross

I'm a huge fan of Andy Kaufman. He made his living just being all sorts of characters, and nobody really knowing who the real…

— Trisha Paytas

Andy Kaufman's mom wanted a girl, his father wanted a boy, and they were both satisfied!

— Jerry Lawler

I wish I'd seen Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Rainbow in 1977.

— Lenny Henry

“O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.”

— Thomas Hardy

I wish that I had seen myself more reflected on TV when I was growing up, and I think a lot of people feel…

— Ncuti Gatwa

A lot of the things I loved the most growing up were, on the surface, kind of challenging or impenetrable. I loved Andy Kaufman,…

— Chris Gethard

There was a thing in the Andy Kaufman movie that Jim Carrey [Man On The Moon] about how he would do it. I didn't…

— Neal Brennan