Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" At my core, I'm a Midwesterner. "

Related Quotes:

" I've hitchhiked - it is 'hitchhiked,' and not 'hitchedhike' like 'passersby,' right? - a couple of times, but only in emergency situations, and that's really the time that it's okay to hitchhike. "

" A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician. "

" I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously. "

" There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. "

" I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood. "

" What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true. "

" There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made. "

" I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most. "

" Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy. "

" I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk. "

" Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything. "

" I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much. "

" As a kid, I know that most of my parents' friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad went along. I know a lot of dads who do that. I think it just starts to happen with guys. In the case of my father, he was probably just too busy reading books about Titanic. "

" My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms. "

" Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh. "

" I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that. "

" I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being a comedian. "

" While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying - things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I'm still trying to figure out. "

" Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work. "

" To try and sustain a performance is always a challenge. Anything you work on, to try and be real and show up and not look as if I'm playing pat to anything is always work. "

" I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do... I would get these albums, and I would just listen to them all the time. I would stand in my room and pretend that I was delivering his comedy routine... And I don't know if that planted any kind of seed, but I wasn't raised going to the theatre. "

" Anybody that's going on a road trip and doesn't really want to get into a myriad of snacks is probably no one you want to get in the car with. "

" I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look. "

" I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.' "

" I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs. "

" I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert. "

" I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with. "

" I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior. "

" I used to live next door to a farm, so every day for awhile, I used to walk over and fed the cows, when I was in school. This was weird because I lived in sort of a subdivision, but this one holdout in our neighborhood in Kansas still had a farm. "

" 'Anchorman' was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie - it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way. "