Career Quote by David Copperfield

No one has ever thought this: Now that I'm out of therapy and have fixed my mental problems, I think I want to be…

— Dana Gould

I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I…

— Brad Williams

Becoming a performer, comedian - anything other than a teacher, really - seemed very far-fetched. So I kind of split off into this separate…

— Quinta Brunson

I took a class from a church comedian and I was squeaky-clean for five, six years of my career starting in churches, corporates and…

— Taylor Tomlinson

Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.

— Metta World Peace

Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the…

— David Copperfield

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

— Michael Emerson

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

— Olivia Wilde

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

— Phil LaMarr

My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another…

— Willie Nelson

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

— Richard Pryor

I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.

— Jeff Dunham