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" I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga. "
Judah Friedlander
Too
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" You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy. "
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" I never wanted to be famous. "
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" Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night. "
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" I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught. "
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" I never really planned on doing a television series. "
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" Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A lot of actors who are of a minority background complain that they only get stereotyped roles, and they are 100 percent correct. However, it's also true that, no matter who you are, you get typecast as well. "
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" Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect. "
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" Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most. "
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" I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for '30 Rock'. Some people think we're old friends from 'Second City' days. I had always been a fan of Tina's. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom. "
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" You can literally walk into my apartment and sit on a hat; you can step on a hat; you can probably open up the refrigerator and find a hat tucked under some rotten food. I have a lot of hats. "
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" I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme. "
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" Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff. "
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Commitment
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" I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up. "
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Stand
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Stand Up
" I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works. "
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Think
" I get hecklers all the time! "
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" I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs. "
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Uphill
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" I am the greatest marital artist in the world. "
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World
I Am
Greatest
" Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything. "
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Talk
" I need to get a wife. But it's hard, you know, it's hard to find a girl you can trust. Some of these girls, they want to go out with you so they can blog about you. "
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" I'm not one of those kind of people who does the observational 'Hey, don't you hate it when you're at the grocery store and the line's long and the cash register starts taking too long.' I don't really do that kind of stuff. I'm heavy on persona, and I do a lot of interacting with the audience. "
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" I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying. "
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" No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats. "
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Life
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" I watch a movie or a T.V. show or whatever; if it's good, I like to watch it more than once, and it's always fun to catch something you didn't see initially. "
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See
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" Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious. "
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Sometimes