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" I see my share of loons. I just performed with someone who had a meltdown on stage. He needed focus, and he was 'stealing it' and just being crazy and selfish and childish and having a great time doing it - to the detriment of everybody else. "

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Scott Adsit

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Doing

" The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers. "

" What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot. "

" I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft. "

" I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian. "

" Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode. "

" Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong. "

" I'm afraid of my mother's paranoia. The more she watches Fox News, the more afraid she gets. "

" I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor, financially, emotionally, egotistically. I still don't think I'm in comedy. "

" I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film. "

" I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly. "

" The way I was brought up in improv was that any idea you have is not as good as your partner's idea, so if I see someone else initiating at the same time I am, I just defer to them because I assume their idea is going be better. And hopefully, they're doing the same with me. "

Scott Adsit

Partner

Time

" I still feel very close to the people I wrote shows with and some of the people I toured with. I feel very close to them, like a family or like college friends who you know and who have seen you at your worst and you spend 14 hours driving a van all piled on top of each other. "

" I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film. "

" I enjoy doing physical comedy. "

" I came up through Second City, so I'm used to playing 20 characters every night who are very different from each other. I wouldn't want my career to be any different. "

" I did a bunch of commercial voiceovers in Chicago before I left. For Balducci's pizza, I did a whole series. Actually I was making a good living with voiceover before I left. "

" I would be onstage all the time if I could. "

" I got an agent when I needed one, when I had a contract negotiation for the first time. I was doing the Second City E.T.C., and I got invited to audition for the last season, it turns out, of 'In Living Color.' "

" 'Baymax' is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn't know it, he researched and saw great potential in the relationship between a boy and a robot. "

" Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on 'Moral Orel' and 'Mary Shelley's Frankenhole,' and they bothered us very little. They very, very seldom came to us and said 'Change this,' or 'You can't do that,' or 'We'd like to see this.' "

" Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it. "

" You know you're an actor in New York when you're on 'SVU.' "

" I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now. "

" Every time that you do a play or a show of any kind, really you have this family that you really build something with for a while, and then we all dissipate, but you always have that connection, that eternal kind of intimacy, you'll always have. "

" New York is almost as important as Chicago, improv-wise. "

" I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly. "

" I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that character anymore. So I'll get offers for panicky, pathetic guys, and while it's a great compliment to get them, I feel like I don't need to play that again. "

" It's hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there's so many platforms now. And they're all topics of conversation. "

" I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up. "