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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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Journey #Ideas #Records
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Inspiration #Ends #Jokes
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Memories #Sight #Culture
“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."”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Jobs #Inspiration #Waiting
“If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Gold #Sticks #Coins
“I identify [myself] as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Acting #Firsts #Schedules
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Passion #Long #Situation
“You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Honest #Being Honest #Term
“You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Shows
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt
“I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Drama #Interesting #Want
“Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Knowing #Comedy #Human Nature
“I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Genius #Scene #Magnolias
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Laughing #Long #Silence
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Jobs #Acting #Going To Work
“Even if you're popular, there are times when you just feel like you're not a part of things.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Like You #Feels
“Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Dark #Comedian #Dangerous
“People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Mcdonalds #People #Transformation
“I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Personality #Grew #Grew Up
“I hate all sidekicks.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Hate #Sidekicks #I Hate
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Years #Car #House
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Spring #Book #Years
“Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Order #Fire #Zombie
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Team #Hair #Sound
“Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Cowboy #Magic #Puppets
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#World #Bills #Stories
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Judging #Rooms #Size
“I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Ducks #Daffy Duck #Bugs
“Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Hate #Meals #I Hate Myself
“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.”
-- Patton Oswalt

#Kings #Couple #Believe

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