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" Comedy chose me. "
Craig Robinson
Chose
Me
Comedy
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" I'm a performer. "
Craig Robinson
Performer
" Banging on the piano while my grandmother was watching me. I'd run up to her and ask: 'How was that, Grandma?' And she'd say, 'That was beautiful, baby!' And I'd run back to the piano and play some more. I'm sure that's why I still play today, because I was encouraged from such a young age, 2 or 3. "
Craig Robinson
Run
Today
Baby
" I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.' "
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Day
Leader
Teacher
" I think fans are going to get everything you'd expect from 'The Office', from awkwardness, to a lot of humor and heart. "
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Fans
Humor
Office
" If you're going to be the lead, you better be ready to always be working. "
Craig Robinson
Ready
Always
Better
" People do ask me for advice for some reason. And I'll just kind of pose it back to them and let them answer on their own. I never like to give my advice 'cause I don't want them to come back and 'You were wrong! You ruined my life!' so it's more about 'Hey, this is what you just told me. What does that sound like to you?' "
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Advice
You
People
" I probably have more words to say in 'Mr. Robot' than I've had in my entire career put together. "
Craig Robinson
Say
Robot
Words
" I got a call from my manager saying, 'Howie Mandel wants to talk to you.' And I'm a comic - big fan of all he's done. He was pitching me 'Caraoke Showdown', and I was just excited about it. "
Craig Robinson
Talk
Done
Manager
" I think I said something mean when I was little, and my mother snapped on me. I was just like, 'I'm sorry!' I could relate. If I had cursed out my dad, I probably would be just waking up. "
Craig Robinson
Me
Said
Mean
" My parents did the whole good-cop/bad-cop thing - Dad was the bad cop, and Mom was the good cop. I remember my father saying, 'I'm his father, not his friend.' That kind of stuck with me. "
Craig Robinson
Mom
Friend
Father
" That's the most gratifying thing in the world, helping each other. "
Craig Robinson
Each
Most
Other
" I so respect Sundance. I'd been hearing about it for years. "
Craig Robinson
Years
Hearing
Been
" I have done my share of karaoke. There is a karaoke place right around the corner from me, and I have been there maybe 800 of 1,000 days I've been in L.A. A lot of songs I know now because of that place. I dig karaoke and have fun with it. "
Craig Robinson
Fun
Place
Me
" I'm Mr. Grits. One of the non-perishables. "
Craig Robinson
Mr
" I've seen some beyond-amazing performers do karaoke who should be on stage somewhere, and I've seen people who you rather didn't enter the bar. That's the beautiful thing about it; it's for everybody. "
Craig Robinson
Somewhere
People
Beautiful
" I was in a TV show called 'Lucky' on FX. The casting director from 'Lucky' was casting 'Dragon Wars'. She called me in to meet with the producer and audition, and I got it from there. "
Craig Robinson
She
Lucky
Dragon
" The end of 2016, Mariah Carey got on stage, and it was mean. The technical difficulties that she came across, now everybody think that she was lost. "
Craig Robinson
Now
End
Think
" It's funny to see how people react to the project, to read their thoughts, and I wonder aloud, 'Did they even watch the movie? Did they even get it?' I know we, myself and the entire cast, put a lot of heart, love and humor into 'Meet the Peeples'. I'm very proud of that film and what we were able to accomplish. "
Craig Robinson
Myself
Heart
Humor
" I got mad love for hot tubs. "
Craig Robinson
Love
Mad
Got
" There's something about seeing somebody who thinks they're great and is so wrapped up in their moves, voice, and performance that makes it so wonderfully charming that you can't take your eyes off. That's why we all remember William Hung from those first years of 'American Idol. It's the William Hung effect. "
Craig Robinson
Great
Voice
American
" It's always nice to do a family movie, because I do a lot of R-rated stuff. "
Craig Robinson
Family
Stuff
Nice
" A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off. "
Craig Robinson
Think
Me
School
" I can bring a crowd down. There should be a contest for that. "
Craig Robinson
Bring
I Can
Down
" Nothing is guaranteed. "
Craig Robinson
Nothing
Guaranteed
" Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal. "
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Used
Birthday
Paint
" I'm starring in the 'New Adventures of Voltron'. I play Voltron. "
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Adventures
Play
New
" I was in my early twenties. I was 22-ish. I graduated from college and went right into teaching. The first year, I taught in Indiana at a couple schools, and then I moved over to Chicago. "
Craig Robinson
Early
Right
College
" Doing voiceover is so much fun because you can play with the lines as much as you want. You can put a whole bunch of energy into it, jump up and down, whatever you got to do. "
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You
Energy
Play
" Ever since I can remember, I've always been silly. "
Craig Robinson
Silly
Remember
Always
" I never wanted to do just one thing. There's even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it's always been that I have to have the vision first. "
Craig Robinson
Want
Always
Me