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" You know you're an actor in New York when you're on 'SVU.' "
Scott Adsit
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" Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly. "
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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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" I enjoy doing physical comedy. "
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" 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.' "
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" I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up. "
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" 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. "
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" I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are. "
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" I've been doing improv since high school, and I've been getting paid for it since I was 20. "
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" The rules of improvisation apply beautifully to life. Never say no - you have to be interested to be interesting, and your job is to support your partners. "
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Rules
Support
Life
" New York is almost as important as Chicago, improv-wise. "
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New
New York
York
" 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. "
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" People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all. "
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" I'm afraid of my mother's paranoia. The more she watches Fox News, the more afraid she gets. "
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Fox
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" I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film. "
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High School
School
High
" 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. "
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Family
Friends
" 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. "
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" I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian. "
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" A nightmare would be when somebody is trying to be funnier than everyone else. And you've got a group scene or two-person scene, and one person decides, 'I'm the funny in this,' and bulldozes everyone else, and they make sure they're the reason everyone loves the scene. "
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" 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. "
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Partner
Time
" 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. "
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Comedy
City
Future
" 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. "
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Different
Night
" I think it's all the same animal for me. There are actors who sing, and there are actors who direct, and I also improvise. That's one thing I do as part of my acting. I don't really separate the two. "
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" I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with their own rope. "
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" Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong. "
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