Fred Armisen Quotes
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.
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I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
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Everybody wants recognition, but we can't all get it.
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I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.
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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
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I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.
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I keep hearing about muthafucking Harry Potter. Who is this muthafucker?
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I think about my friends all the time when I'm designing. That's always an arbiter. Would Katy wear this? Would Rihanna wear this? Would Sia wear it? Would Miley wear it?
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I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how sexuality is, straight or gay. These categories very often fail to describe the complexity of who we are.
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My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.
