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" I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night. "
Michael McKean
Night
Work
Me
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" I was working with Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' We were about to make an entrance together - I was Hoover, he was LBJ - and he says to me, 'You should play the brother in 'Better Call Saul.' I was like 'What?' and it was time to go on. I'm doing the scene, and I can't think of what Hoover's supposed to say. "
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" I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours. "
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" I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil today?' is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think. "
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" I think 'The X-Files' was a very important moment in TV history. "
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" I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy. "
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" I try and find a way to love every character I play. "
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" People seem to think if you're successful, then you have some secret. The fact is, you've just managed to work your life a certain way. "
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" Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way. "
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" After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it. "
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" You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule. "
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" Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear! "
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" It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals. "
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Your
Character
" I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style. "
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Kind
Style
" My wife makes an amazing chili. "
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" On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the subway home from your play, you realize what you did wrong, and you go back the next night and you do it better, or you screw it up again in a different way. It's a different thing altogether. "
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You
Better
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" When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again. "
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" Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is. "
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She
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" Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. "
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Benign
Even
Kind
" I'm not really a gourmet. I like to try new things. "
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Try
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" There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies. "
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Way
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" They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years. "
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" The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true. "
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" A character has to believe in himself, so I have to find a way to believe in them. Or at least sympathize to a degree. "
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" Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. "
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" 'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people. "
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" I like working with Bob Odenkirk. "
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" That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more. "
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" I'm not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I've never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law. "
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" To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me. "
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