I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.
Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.
You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
I realize that each year it has changed and grown until I know that, a decade from now, what I might say of it would seem like an echo of what has been instead of what is.
He appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care."
Jon's comedic idols are Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen.
Jon and Dana Carvey were originally considered for the lead roles in the movie Bad Boys. The roles went to Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
Jon started performing stand up comedy in 2005, to freshen up his comedy skills in between films, and discovered that he is really great at it, and enjoys doing it.
Jon's favorite bands are: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin.
Jon is currently dating the self proclaimed 'World's first super-model', Janice Dickenson.
Jon was a member of the comedy troupe The Groundlings with Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman. Jon pushed for Hartman to get hired on at Saturday Night Live, and he did.
Jon was nominated for Emmy Awards the first two years that he appeared on Saturday Night Live, in 1986 & 1987.
Jon sings a duet with Robbie Williams called "Swing While You're Winning" on his album titled Well Did You Evah in 2001.
Jon's Saturday Night Live character the 'Master Thespian' is a parody of a professor he had at the University of California Irvine.
Jon studied theater at the University of California Irvine, earning his Bachelors Degree in 1979. He studied acting with Tony Barr at the 'Film Actors Workshop'.
Lovitz stars in a series of commercials for Subway restaurants. (2006)
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