Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Gabe Kaplan.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Gabriel Weston Kaplan is an American actor, comedian, and professional poker player. He played the eponymous teacher in the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. He later became a professional poker player and a commentator for the series High Stakes Poker on PokerGO.
I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.
I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.