Ryan Stiles

“What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.”

“The sky, the sky beyond the door is blue.”

“You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.”

“I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.”

“Back off or the lizard gets it!”

“If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.”

“Never trust sheep.”

“If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.”

“When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.”

“I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they've just said. That's all there is to improv, but it's the hardest thing to do.”

“If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.”

“Drew's a funny guy. Because anything he gets into, he gets in 100%. Even when we were doing 'The Drew Carey Show,' he got into bowling, and suddenly he's phoning up pros for tips and carrying around 3 balls. It's just how he does it.”

“I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.”

“I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.”

“I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd - it's a kind of a 'make me laugh' attitude. But when you come out as an improvisor, they realize that they're suggesting everything you do. So they're already invested in the scene, and they actually want it to work.”

“On 'Whose Line,' we had six, seven, eight scenes per show, so everything was pretty quick. And there's a lot of games that we just got tired of, like 'Hats' and 'World's Worst' and 'Hoedown' and stuff.”

“I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.”

“I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.”

“The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.”

“If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.”