Phil Hartman Quotes

It's fun coming in as the second or third lead. If the movie or TV show bombs, you aren't to blame.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.

I'm a really big fan of Bill Murray.

It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.