Dan Levy Quotes

Dan Levy

Profession : Comedian

Birth : March 19, 1981

People always ask about my dad and his comedic influence. It's funny because my mom is really the comedian of our household.

Dan Levy

My parents have always had this philosophy that overindulging your children is one of the worst things you could do as a parent. It's something that was hammered into my head growing up. And while my mom and dad are not professional authorities on parenting, I can confirm from experience that they had a point.

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My mom asked me one day at lunch in a very lovely and respectful way. I was finally comfortable enough to say yes, I was gay, and it really was never talked about again.

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When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own.

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My dad made a conscious choice to keep my family in Canada. I think he wanted us to have a pretty normal life and one that wasn't necessarily affected by the industry or all that comes with growing up in Hollywood.

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After getting the job at MTV, the challenge was, 'How do I start my career as a television host without people holding my dad's career over my head?' It's a very easy thing for people to look to my dad and say, 'Well, he got his job because of this.'

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My parents have - my dad has managed to succeed at his craft. So, you know, it's not like I was struggling in my life.

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It's important to tell queer stories and to show queer relationships in a very normal setting.

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Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

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Our phones have created what I like to call SADD - Social Attention Deficit Disorder.

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We've become accustomed to repurposing and living vicariously through other people's work instead of going out and making our own.

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I have no patience for homophobia.

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I've been a lover of fashion my whole life.

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I was such a bad red-carpet host.

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In my head, I'm a purist that doesn't require anything but a group of good friends and a bottle of wine. In reality, I'm co-dependent on my iPhone and fully conscious of the fact that my attention span is corroding.

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I know that in writer's rooms across North America, there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes to intimacy between, in my case, two men. That's an insane conversation to be having.

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As a child, I seriously believed my family was going down the road to bankruptcy. I was denied virtually every popular trend, from heavily logoed Tommy Hilfiger windbreakers to amusement park season's passes.

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I've grown up around some incredibly funny people, which has been a blessing and curse because now I've been completely spoiled in terms of what I find funny.

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I'm good with furniture, very bad with plants.

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So often, I think shows get into these grooves where they know the characters hit, and they just write for it over and over and over again.

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