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“I have had some success. And it's all been wonderful, and a growing process for me. But it's nothing to my family compared to being in a musical.”
“There's a lot of life out there.”
“My philosophy in life is just to laugh as much as possible through the good and the bad - to laugh at the tragedies as well as the triumphs.”
“I take some ungodly pantyhose size. You've heard of 2X or 3X. I'm something horrible, like a 47X.”
“In my case, I don't eat a lot before a show. I eat after. But I do two shows and it becomes part of my reward system. 'I made people laugh. I deserve a pizza.'”
“The guy who made the shoes for 'Hairspray' said putting shoes on me was like putting a pump on a ham. I found out that if I ever was to dress like a woman, I would not be buying off the rack.”
“I do a lot of dialects in my act, including Irish, because I grew up in a neighbourhood that was predominantly Irish and Italian.”
“I started off doing impressions. It was a comfortable way to get started.”
“I really don't do fat jokes. I talk about the trials and tribulations of being a large mammal in America.”
“I was raised to believe you eat hamburgers, mashed potatoes and gravy, and cheesecake for dessert. In California they eat tofu burgers, fat-free applesauce and cake with no sugar. Hopefully, in between, there's a happy medium for me.”
“Being asked to be in the last episode of 'Seinfeld' is not something you pass on. It was a great honor.”
“For some reason, people enjoy seeing me lose my cherub-like demeanor.”
“You see, I've always had this thing in that I love to make people laugh, I want to entertain people.”
“Vegans go to the store and they buy 50,000-pound bags of almonds. And they make it into stuff they wish they could eat.”
“I watch a lot of CNN and the Food Network. Now, I'm learning how to cook healthy - when I was a kid low-fat was a Chinese gangster.”
“I was a very bad accountant. I knew the book theory, but I didn't have the heart for it. I did it for six months, and my job was to distract the auditors with jokes.”
“I do a bunch of things when I'm in St. Louis. I went on the Anheuser-Busch tour they had to drag me out of there. I walked into that room with the 30,000 gallon keg of beer, and I said, 'This will be my new home'... I mean, I was genuinely happy.”
“I'm a big guy, but I don't do 'I'm so fat that... ' jokes.”
“A great deal of my comedy comes from the trials and tribulations of growing up a big kid in the Boston area.”
“Larger people do not get a lot to play in the theater.”