Chris Hardwick Quotes
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Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.
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If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.
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Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.
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I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.
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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
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I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.
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Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.
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Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
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It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was.
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The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.
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Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.
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For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.
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I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.
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In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That's why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: 'May the Force be with you.'
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I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?
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The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
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You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.
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Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.
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Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
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When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.
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The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.
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The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
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Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.
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I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.