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" The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery. "
Sam Richardson
Blind
Interesting
Miss
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" I'm an audiophile and have been collecting records for as long as I can remember. "
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" Performing in Detroit or performing in Chicago, you're on your own turf, but when you tour a show, the audiences change. You're in a completely different space; sensibilities change. I think I learned a lot from doing that - how written material works in different places, learning to have confidence, learning the idea of how to be adaptable. "
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Learning
" I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv. "
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" I do think there's something funny about being over-optimistic. "
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Think
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" My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from the States, so even in my family when I was growing up, my mom said I was the American one, and my dad said I was the weird African one. "
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Family
Growing Up
Mom
" What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they are. What's funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it's a swan. "
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Seeing
Realize
Funny
" When you grow up with siblings, you can be like, 'Isn't this weird? Isn't this funny? Do we agree on this, or do we disagree?' You have some point of reference, some touchstone. When you grow up an only child, everything is internalized. "
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Grow Up
You
Weird
" I use Postmates more than I use the actual telephone app on my phone. "
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Than
Use
Telephone
" I can do so many accents that I'll never be able to use. There aren't casting calls for a black guy to play a Scottish highlander. I can hope. I've got my brogue ready. I just need the opportunity! "
Sam Richardson
Play
Opportunity
Need
" I really enjoy 'Baskets.' I'm a big fan of 'Archer' and 'Mr. Robot.' "
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Robot
Big Fan
Enjoy
" A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it's such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end. "
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End
Playing
Kind
" I grew up between Detroit and Ghana, and I had to make friends in an instant. It sharpened my wit, and also, just for my own sanity's sake, I felt like I wanted to entertain myself. So I'm going through all these experiences, and I ask myself, 'Is this crazy? Is it? Wait, what's so funny about this?' "
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Funny
Wait
Myself
" With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power of government. "
Sam Richardson
Character
Power
Only
" I went to an all-boys high school, and I didn't realize I was going to a Catholic all-boys school until right before I got there. I was so bummed that it was all boys. "
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Got
Right
High School
" I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years. "
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Think
Years
Mom
" Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you'd be fine. "
Sam Richardson
Drops
You
Water
" As far as magazines, I'll read 'GQ' to see where men's fashion is, but that's really kind of it. "
Sam Richardson
Kind
Where
See
" I've never seen 'E.T.' "
Sam Richardson
Never
Seen
" At Second City and improvising at iO, you're creating a character in an instant. All of a sudden, you're creating this history and this past for your character, and you're discovering it while you're doing it, and that's part of the fun of it. "
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Fun
History
Past
" My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot. "
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Detroit
Forth
Back
" I've eaten part of my tooth. I had a weird cavity that broke apart in my teeth - this is a bad story. I was eating and thought, 'It's like I'm swallowing rocks,' and then I checked and part of my tooth is missing. I ate it. "
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Eating
Weird
Thought
" On 'Veep,' people are connecting with each other, even if they're making backhanded comments about somebody behind someone else's back. "
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Somebody
Someone
Back
" The movie I've seen the most is 'Ghostbusters' or 'Ghostbusters II.' I used to watch those movies nonstop. "
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Most
Seen
Used
" I want to play my Joker. Not the Joker, but my Joker. Somebody who can have fun doing wrong. "
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Play
Have Fun
Doing