Brett Gelman Quotes

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Brett Gelman

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 6, 1976

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.

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The world is pretty messed up.

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I love 'Seinfeld.' That was not alternative. You can't get more in mainstream than that.

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I don't hate oatmeal raisin, but it is the worst cookie. Profoundly disappointing.

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I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

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I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.

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I'm Jewish, so it's like I'm not totally white. I'm, like, gray.

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Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.

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There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.

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I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.

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Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.

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Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.

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I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

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I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.

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I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.

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I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

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I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

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I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.

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At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

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We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're going to feel how you feel. It's hard to just set up a way that you're going to live your life that is going to be just endlessly happy and healthy. That's impossible.

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