Bob Odenkirk Quotes

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Bob Odenkirk

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 22, 1962

'Monty Python' became my religion when I was 10. It led me out of the depths of darkness. I loved 'The Goodies,' too, and 'The Two Ronnies.' I watched those shows on the public television station in Chicago.

Bob Odenkirk

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

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The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

Bob Odenkirk

Humans are ridiculous. We're all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it's optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you're never going to get there, and that's OK.

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I always wrote risque comedy and crude comedy.

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I've spent most of my career in ensembles, and I'm good with that.

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Vince Gilligan is a wizard - and a fantastically hard-working wizard.

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I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.

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All those Bob Hope specials made me cringe when I was a kid.

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When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.

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The '50s sucked for a lot of people on Earth.

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I did often wonder how relatable of a story it was when we started 'Better Call Saul.' It's such a unique character with a unique journey. But the universal drive of trying to earn respect from the people you love and not being able to do that is a common struggle for a lot of people.

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It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

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It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.

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You make you work for yourself. It's the feeling of, 'If nobody ever saw it, that'd be fine, too.'

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I remember making 'Mr. Show,' thinking, 'Man this stuff is really funny to me.' I don't know if anyone else will love it, but I know I'm going to still watch it in 15 years if I'm still alive and laugh really hard. Even though we had very high standards, we were trying to excite and please ourselves.

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My experience - and it might be just the kind of comedy that I do, which is usually sketch comedy - is that there's a lot more texture and subplot in drama than in comedy.

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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.

Bob Odenkirk

I went to New York in '87 to write for 'Saturday Night Live.'

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I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.

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