It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for.
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If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public.
There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.
I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.
I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.
I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.
I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
We are entertainers. We have to give our audience a good time. If my name serves that purpose, if that brings a smile on your face, then I think it is good and my job has been done.
The public is a part of my real life.
I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.
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