A. O. Scott Quotes

[Sharron Angle] said, 'I can't win without you getting out of the race.' But I said I couldn't. I'm going to beat Harry Reid.

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.

That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.

I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled.

I love all of our subpodcasts.

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

The best sketch shows are from a group of tight-knit people whove worked together for a really long time.

I always viewed [the podcast and the TV show] as two separate things.

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

Thank you for listening to Comedy Bang Bang! My name is Scott Aukerman and I will see you next week.

I always tried to do cool things.

It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something.

Оf course you can only write comedy when you're smoking weed.

A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end.

Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.

It's so hard to figure out how to end a TV show.

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.

The key to being a singer - try to do it audibly.

We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

There are two different kinds of actors. There are people who take it just so damn seriously. Then there are guys like me that just get up and love doing it.

I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.

Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her.

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why.

Trump has to do what Reagan did. Trump's gotta go on the air and tell us what his tax plan is and put it in our faces and put them on the spot. That's what I think he should do.

Paul Ryan I don't think wants to work. I think Paul Ryan wants the status quo, and I think Paul Ryan is a Never Trumper.

If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will

I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It's a beautiful thing.

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'

I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

People can think what they want to think, I don't go after people. I think most people I talk to, like me, are very quiet and keep to themselves, they maintain their lives.

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.

It's always great to be involved in something that's not in an in-your-face fashion, but has a message that goes out guised as entertainment.