Danny McBride Quotes
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In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
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But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.
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It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.
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If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.
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And I'm always surprised when people have seen 'The Foot Fist Way', so when people bring that up, I'm always surprised that's reached other people besides my immediate friends.
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I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.
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It hasn't been anything that's been overwhelming or anything, but I do get recognized here and there.
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You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.
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There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.
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But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.
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The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
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On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.
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In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.
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I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.
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Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.
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I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.
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I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.
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When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.
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I don't really care about awards.
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The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.
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As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.
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So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.
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I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity.
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I made movies all the time when I was a kid.