Quotes by Howie Mandel

• The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
• I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.
• I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.
• If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
• It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.
• My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.
• You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.
• People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.
• Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
• There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it.
• There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.
• We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
• We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
• You release these things, and if they fly then you have more.
• I am beloved by millions.