Matthew McGrory Quotes
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know.
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I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
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I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
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Comedy is basically self-deprecation.
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I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
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I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
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The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
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Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.
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I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
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I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.
