Fred Armisen Quotes
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I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.
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I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.
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I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.
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You should approach everything in life like, 'What is this?'
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I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.
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The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
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'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.
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Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.
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People on the street comment on how handsome I am. You know, people stop and say how angular my face is.
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I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be.
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I learned at 'SNL' that it's a bummer to bum people out.
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I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead.
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I can only parody stuff I love.
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When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.
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For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.
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El Perro del Mar sort of accompanied my time at 'SNL.' To concentrate and focus, I would play the bass to one of her songs from her third album.
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When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.
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I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other.
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I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled.
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My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.
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The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.
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Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it.
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When you're in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you're stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs.
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I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far.