Big Quote by Matt Besser

Stand-up was interesting to me at the beginning, because I was trying to parody it. My early stand-up was really Andy Kaufman-esque, and then…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

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 really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

— Chris Tucker

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

— Clive Owen

I loved working with him [Justin Chadwick]. He was very smart in how he assembled the people around him and had a crew that…

— Eric Bana

I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To Dinner. What…

— Chris Hart

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

— Steve Buscemi

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the…

— Mark Leyner

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that…

— Robert Klein

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material.…

— George Carlin

I enjoyed working with Dustin Hoffman. That was really fun. He decided that to really be effective as Woodward and Bernstein, considering their differences,…

— Robert Redford