Bob Saget Quotes
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I wasn't the first choice for the role of Danny Tanner. Betty White was. Not true, but there was another actor whom they had shot the pilot with.
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I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.
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I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented, but it just sickens me to do them.
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I've never not felt relevant.
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I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.
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If you laugh at that, you lower the bar, and I will limbo under it because I am a fucked-up guy!
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25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
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I have nine compartments in my brain, and four of them don't stop.
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It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.
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My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.
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Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.
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I love performing. I love the people. I sound like Liza Minnelli right now, don't I?
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When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.
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There's just something about the audiences in Detroit that I've always felt connected to. Detroit is different.
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Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.
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I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.
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When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.
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What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.
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Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.
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Now I've literally become neighborhood watch. I call 911 on people. I'm the old man driving 25-miles-per-hour down Sunset.
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Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
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Comedians' first ten minutes usually stay with them the first several years of their career. It's their mission statement. Their disclaimer that lets people know who they are. Or were. It's also a good time to make fun of your name if you have a funny or strange one.
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I don't call her my middle child, I call her my center child, Because the world revolves around her.
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People ask me what my favorite episode of Full House is; it was the last one!