Fred Armisen Quotes
I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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What matters most is the win.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.
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Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
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Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
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When I'm writing comics, I'm also visualizing how the story will look on the page - not even always art-wise, but panel-wise, like how a moment will be enhanced dramatically by simply turning a page and getting a reveal. It requires thinking about story in a way I never had to consider when I was writing prose.
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I'm very optimistic. I'm happy-go-lucky, I guess. I try to be.
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
