Fred Armisen Quotes
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The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work?
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I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.
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I don't know anything about the wine world at all.
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My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems.
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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.
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I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.
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Talking Heads were a big influence on my comedy. For David Byrne, every album had to be different. With 'Portlandia,' every season has to be different. You gotta reinvent the look, all of it.
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I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.
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Art should not be an easy thing.
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The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.
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I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can.
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I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.
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I get very, very little sleep.
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Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
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At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It's linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you're at the end of it.
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I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing.
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Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV.
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There should be comedians who perform only for robots - I'm saying human comedians that only perform for robots.
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I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There's a glamour to, like, 'I've got to get to the airport!' I just like the caricature.
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I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy.
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I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.
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That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed.
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I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.
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I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.