Influenced Quote by Ari Shaffir

People like Bill Burr and Jim Gaffigan and Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman - they were all amazing and helpful to me.

— Pete Holmes

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

— Micky Dolenz

I made some nice associations. Ben Perowsky and Kevin Hays... Bill Mobley and Pete McGuinness. A lot of talented people.

— Jon Gordon

Tony Williams, Billy Cobham and Lenny White; some of those guys were big influences on me.

— Danny Carey

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

— Dwayne Johnson

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

— Bruce Dickinson

James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because…

— Michael Jackson

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

— Tim DeKay

My biggest influence is probably Kenny Everett, as a kid.

— Katy Wix

Johnny Carson was a big influence on me - all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them,…

— Don Rickles

I was a huge fan of Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, obviously Phil Hartman, and a very young Adam Sandler.

— Dolph Ziggler

My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

— Larry Bishop