Michael Ian Black Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.”
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“There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.”
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“It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."”
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“There is something about the human condition. I don't think dogs are like "If only I was a poodle instead of a golden retriever, I'd be totally happy." Dogs are happy with who they are.”
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“Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.”
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“I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.”
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“I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.”
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“Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.”
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“The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.”
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“The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.”
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“I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.”
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“All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.”
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“If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.”
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“I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.”
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“My fear is if I expose myself, not so much that I'll be hurt, but that the reaction will be "Is that all there is? Is that the entirety of you? Because it's boring."”
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“That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.”
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“I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.”
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“I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"”
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“I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.”
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“Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.”
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“By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.”
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“I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.”
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“I probably should be thinking of better ideas on how to promote myself, but I don't really spend a lot of time doing it. I really don't know how to promote effectively.”
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“Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.”
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“As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.”
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“Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.”
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“I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.”
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“You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.”
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“With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.”
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“Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.”
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