Bob Odenkirk Quotes

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Bob Odenkirk

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 22, 1962

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

Bob Odenkirk

There's timing in drama. You have to have a sense of rhythm. But the real thing that lends yourself to drama as opposed to comedy is a sense from the audience of whether there's more to it than you can see.

Bob Odenkirk

I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life.

Bob Odenkirk

I probably do better when I'm in charge. But it's good to be able to be a part of something and be a supporter and help make a project work.

Bob Odenkirk

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job. There are so many decisions that law enforcement officers have to make, and the incident or situation changes so much from moment to moment and day to day. I have a lot of respect for officers and what they go through.

Bob Odenkirk

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

Bob Odenkirk

I didn't do so well at 'Saturday Night Live.' It was a very hard experience for me, for a lot of reasons that have to do with the kind of person I am and the personal issues I had at the time. I was very alone in New York, and the show has a lot of stress related to it.

Bob Odenkirk

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

Bob Odenkirk

I love making wisecracks.

Bob Odenkirk

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

Bob Odenkirk

I love writing comedy and being a part of it, but as a visual, physical presence in a story, I probably am more impactful in drama. It's not really a tribute to my dexterity and wide-ranging talent so much as it is a person finally getting to where they should've been from the start.

Bob Odenkirk

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.

Bob Odenkirk

To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when your character has a sense of self-awareness. It doesn't necessarily have to arc. It doesn't have to grow.

Bob Odenkirk

I enjoy crude behaviour and language. I revel in it.

Bob Odenkirk

Drama is more focused, and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there when you first read it.

Bob Odenkirk

I have a lot of opinions. I express them in 'Mr. Show' very clearly, I think. I feel like both David Cross and I felt like that show reflected each of us pretty wholly.

Bob Odenkirk