Bob Odenkirk Quotes
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We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.
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My goal, whenever entering a project, is always to gain 12 pounds.
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I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.
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I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.
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You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be shaping the material all the time. And the other thing is, you get all the blame when you direct and it doesn't work. You get slammed. So that's another reason to know what you're making, why you're making it, and make it the way you want.
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I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.
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The world needs less destruction.
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Acting in particular is a fun job when you have a good script. I don't know about acting when you don't have a great script. I'm gonna say that's not a great job, it's kind of a dumb job. But when you have a good part in a good script, it's the best job, in a way.
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Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
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You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.
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You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.
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You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.
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I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.
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It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
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If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."
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Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.
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The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, "Yeah, I agree."
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Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.
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My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.
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I don't think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.
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I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after people go, ‘OK, I’ve had enough of that improvisation, I’ve had enough of those short comedy bits. Tell me a story, tell me a more complex story, something that lasts and maybe has a little more meaning to it.’ Don’t ever look at what’s happening now; look at what’s coming next.
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In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.
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Comedy can be destructive, and still very, very funny. But if I can do something that is fun to watch and critical of the world but not wantonly destructive, I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.
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Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they're bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.
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The laugh is what trumps everything.
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I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.
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My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.
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If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.
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When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.
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We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.
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