Phil Hartman Quotes & Sayings

“As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.”

“I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.”

“The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.”

“One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.”

“Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.”

“I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.”

“'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who's sort of a Flash Gordon barrel-chested superhero who goes to Uranus and shoots these little green alien Fascist guys. He rescues babes; he goes on wild rides.”

“I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.”

“I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.”

“I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.”