Kaufman Quotes

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous. (Vincent Schiavelli)

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

Courtney Love

I am not a comic, I have never told a joke...The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him...My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can....They say, 'Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a really funny guy.' But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads."

Andy Kaufman

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

Miloš Forman

Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.

Jerry Lawler

I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

Steve Martin

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

Clive Owen

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

David Cross

"When in doubt, vomit green foam" is the motto of the B-movie empire, Troma Studios, the brainchild of Kaufman and Michael Herz, whose exploitation hits, Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High and Tromeo & Juliet, today clutter the midnight movie section of most video rental shops. Here, Kaufman traces his lifelong dedication to big-screen gore, disfigurement, mutation and raunchy sex from his days in the Yale film society as a disaffected undergrad in the mid-1960s (where he made a feature-length film that consisted mainly of a braless woman jogging) to his present career as a leading impresario of bad taste.

Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman on Youtube Uncle Lloydie introduces the Toxic Avengers. (Lloyd Kaufman)

The playwright George S. Kaufman remembered what he called the "greatest ‘line reversal' of my lifetime.” He liked to drop in on Broadway shows he had directed to, as he put it, "just check on them and take out the ‘improvements.' ” He was eternally grateful to have caught one performance when he heard an actor commit the gem. It ran: "Her breath would take your beauty away.” He kept the line framed on his desk ever afterward.

Dick Cavett