Fred Armisen famous quotes

05-17-2025

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.
-- Fred Armisen

#Funny Graduation #Hammers #Guarantees
There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have coffee there. Also, the way that it's a little overcast sometimes. Something about Portland just really resonated with me.
-- Fred Armisen

#Coffee #Cities #Portland
I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.
-- Fred Armisen

#Crazy #Crazy Person #Persons
I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.
-- Fred Armisen

#Night #Feelings #Stuff
I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.
-- Fred Armisen

#Night #People #Guy
I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.
-- Fred Armisen

#Nice #Night #People
Portland is where young people go to retire.
-- Fred Armisen

#People #Portland #Young
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.
-- Fred Armisen

#Thinking #Ideas #Trying
Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.
-- Fred Armisen

#Nice #Proud #Kind
I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.
-- Fred Armisen

#Cities #People #Personality
I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.
-- Fred Armisen

#Mean #People #Trying
The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
-- Fred Armisen

#Country #Hate #Rivalry
Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
-- Fred Armisen

#Beautiful #Mets #Journalist
Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.
-- Fred Armisen

#Stars #Jobs #Real
I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'
-- Fred Armisen

#Two #Years #House
I'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of.
-- Fred Armisen

#Obsessed #Weird Things #Grows
I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.
-- Fred Armisen

#Night #Thinking #Saturday
I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'
-- Fred Armisen

#Missing #Soldier #Way
Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.
-- Fred Armisen

#Graduation #People #Want
I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.
-- Fred Armisen

#Husband #Thinking #Terrible
When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,'and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.
-- Fred Armisen

#Coffee #Oregon #People
I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
-- Fred Armisen

#Relax #Stuff #Not Happy

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