Larry the Cable Guy Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'”

“We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.”

“Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.”

“We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.”

“I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.”

“I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.”

“When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!”

“Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.”

“I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.”

“'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.”