Patton Oswalt Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The idea of, 'The journey is the destination' is put into action by browsing in an indie record store. Besides, a human being is a much better guide than a 'More Like This' link on the internet.”
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“All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.”
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“I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy.”
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“The truly great actors, like Charlize Theron, are just like, "I'm an actor. For hire. I show up, I do my job." There's no "I'm just waiting for the inspiration." They just do their jobs. They say, "Let's go over the scene a few times and get it."”
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“If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.”
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“I identify [myself] as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.”
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“You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.”
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“You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.”
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“You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.”
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“Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure.”
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“I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.”
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“I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.”
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“As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.”
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“Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.”
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“Even if you're popular, there are times when you just feel like you're not a part of things.”
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“Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.”
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“People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.”
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“I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.”
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“I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.”
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“I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.”
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“Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes.”
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“Anything's better than Gen X which is what we got. Thanks Douglas Coupland. We sound like a team of mutant vigalantees with frosted hair and chain wallets. Actually that's not completely horrible.”
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“Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.”
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“Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.”
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“Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.”
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“I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.”
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“Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.”
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“The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.”
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