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" When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically. "
Zach Galifianakis
Play
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Seems
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" When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies. "
Zach Galifianakis
Long
Movies
Small
" I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans. "
Zach Galifianakis
Goal
Movies
You
" When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there. "
Zach Galifianakis
Thought
Funny
People
" Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person. "
Zach Galifianakis
New
Used
Person
" As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger. "
Zach Galifianakis
More
Different
Anger
" Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier. "
Zach Galifianakis
Making
Much
Stuff
" There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend. "
Zach Galifianakis
Long
Time
Money
" I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15. "
Zach Galifianakis
Love
Wanting
Years
" I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie. "
Zach Galifianakis
Out
Know
Person
" American society loves to prop people up and then take them down. "
Zach Galifianakis
People
American
Society
" My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing. "
Zach Galifianakis
Him
Because
Understand
" I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese. "
Zach Galifianakis
Greek
Cheese
Body
" I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women. "
Zach Galifianakis
Never
Look
Years
" I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes. "
Zach Galifianakis
I Can
People
Eyes
" I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do. "
Zach Galifianakis
Doing
Just
Keep
" It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison. "
Zach Galifianakis
Good
Comedy
Thanks
" I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing. "
Zach Galifianakis
You
Try
Find
" Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way. "
Zach Galifianakis
Trying
People
Guilty
" My forte is awkwardness. "
Zach Galifianakis
Forte
Awkwardness
" There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life. "
Zach Galifianakis
Live
Stupid
Think
" I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being. "
Zach Galifianakis
Diet
Yourself
You
" Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian. "
Zach Galifianakis
People
Growth
Wish
" I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny. "
Zach Galifianakis
Track
Think
Funny
" I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony. "
Zach Galifianakis
People
Place
Farm
" I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92. "
Zach Galifianakis
Since
Me
Hit
" Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money. "
Zach Galifianakis
Good
Money
American
" You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired. "
Zach Galifianakis
Tired
Me
Long
" I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that. "
Zach Galifianakis
Heads
Way
Anger
" I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that. "
Zach Galifianakis
Past
Me
You
" I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers. "
Zach Galifianakis
Why
Brothers
Comedies