Matt Walsh Quotes

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Matt Walsh

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 13, 1964

There's something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that's going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it's climate change or crowd sizes. Every day, there's another blatant lie. I think there's comedy in there somewhere.

Matt Walsh

I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family.

Matt Walsh

There's a moment in every romantic comedy when a person sees something in someone else that nobody else sees.

Matt Walsh

I've seen several funnel clouds as a kid, too. They're cool if, you know, they're, like, two towns over, but they're scary as hell if you know they're coming your way.

Matt Walsh

I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about doing 'em.

Matt Walsh

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

Matt Walsh

I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

Matt Walsh

I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.

Matt Walsh

I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.

Matt Walsh

L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

Matt Walsh

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

Matt Walsh

Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.

Matt Walsh

You can't be controlling in improv.

Matt Walsh

It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.

Matt Walsh

Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They're like circus folk. They're freaks themselves.

Matt Walsh

Stylistically, in improv, I don't think you can have as many camera tricks; I think you're kind of shooting more like a documentary: you don't know where it's going, so you have to hang back a little more.

Matt Walsh

Authentic discovery, when captured on camera, I think, is tremendous acting.

Matt Walsh

When I first started doing press interviews, the big question was, 'Do you think women are funny?' People would ask you that in an interview. In an interview! It's like, of course they are.

Matt Walsh

When I came into improv, it was almost like an outsider art form.

Matt Walsh

I think people who can do comedy well don't get enough credit. It can be harder than drama.

Matt Walsh