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" I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great. "

Fred Armisen

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" Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking. "

" Bill Hader does a really good impression of me. "

Fred Armisen

Bill

Impression

" I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can. "

" There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people. "

" There's something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I'm like, 'Why is this so easy and sweet?' "

" I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other. "

" I don't think there's an archetype for the Justin Bieber fan. A Bieber fan just looks like an American. You wouldn't even need a costume to try and resemble one. "

" I feel like Miami is way, way too hot. "

" The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead. "

Fred Armisen

Country

Day

" Everywhere I go, somebody says something to me. It's really nice. "

" Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile. "

" I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something you hear on CDs or would really ever play in bands. You listen to it and are like, 'What is happening?' It's this blizzard of notes in weird time signatures, and they're trying to teach you that. "

" I get very, very little sleep. "

" I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear. "

" When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way. "

" I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?' "

" I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There's a glamour to, like, 'I've got to get to the airport!' I just like the caricature. "

" I have the capability to have a close relationship with someone. "

Fred Armisen

Relationship

Someone

" I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time. "

" James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live. "

" Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful. "

" My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems. "

" Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit. "

" I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me. "

" Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage. "

" The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy. "

" I've met Tony Danza. He was really nice. And he looks... I feel like he hasn't aged. He looks exactly the same. He's just Tony Danza. He's exactly the same as he's always been. "

Fred Armisen

Nice

Always

" I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much. "