Sidekick Quotes

I have no problem playing the funny sidekick. I`m a grunt; I`m a sergeant, an officer. I`m on point with everyone else.

(on if he feels he is typecast as a comic relief sidekick, and if it bothers him) No, I am. It`s a pleasure and a privilege. I really look at it as a career, and not what movies I`m doing this year. I remember not getting offered Dude, Where`s My Car? (2000) and going, "Wow, I`ve graduated from college." So it changes as you grow older just for obvious reasons. And to be typecast and make money and make people happy and people dig what you do, what a great thing, man. I don`t want to compete with Jude Law, nor should I. Could I act them? Sure. But do people want me to act them? Probably not, you know. As much as I would want to do it, you know what I mean? I think people fuck up there and they do what they want to do. And that`s fine, but remember, it`s all about telling a story, it`s all about entertaining people in one way or another. And some people are successful at it. I mean, Tom Hanks is great. There are examples of people who have gone both ways. If that opportunity comes, then it comes. Tom Hanks did wacky old Turner & Hooch (1989) comedies forever and then, eventually, when the time was right, he did it. And it wasn`t like he was doing it intentionally, it just kind of happened, because he became an older man and it worked. So maybe I`ll play the crazy sidekick throughout my whole life and that will be fine. Or maybe I`ll do sidekick parts and in five years it will be a different thing. I don`t know, maybe. I don`t have a plan, I just want to do the next good thing for me."

The sidekick business has been good to me.

I don`t have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I`m lonely. It`s scary.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn`t have to be white, and the other one doesn`t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We`re way over that. And I think it`s happening in society, too.

Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That`s how I feel about it.

It`s the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

I am a gadget freak and my Sidekick II rolls everywhere with me,

I am a gadget freak and my Sidekick II rolls everywhere with me, ... I was happy to partner with T-Mobile to customize a Sidekick II to reflect my style and give young art collectors the opportunity to carry a piece of my work around with them.

On the secrecy behind his nightly monologue: "It`s always been a ritual with me. I don`t show it to Freddie (executive producer Frederick De Cordova) or Ed (sidekick Ed McMahon) or anybody. If you don`t show it to anybody, then you get fresh reactions."