Patton Oswalt Quotes

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

Patton Oswalt

• Comedy
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• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Travel
  • Thought

• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Cool
  • Travel
  • Guitar

• I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Travel
  • Promote
  • Commercials

• I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Deep
  • Travel
  • Cookies

• We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Job
  • Lost
  • Travel

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Comedy
  • Idea
  • Resilience

• It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Job
  • Team
  • Best

• I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Think
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Long
  • Travel
  • Volunteer

• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Travel

• 'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Man
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Comedy

• For Lennon and me, we grew up with Laverne and Shirley or Lucy and Ethel. For us, those are our inspirations. And I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey led the way for us to be fearless in the way we kept shoving our message and our comedy voice down people's throats until they listened.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Dangerous

• Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.

  

  Bill Gurley
  • Time
  • Different
  • Trying

• A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Believe
  • Small
  • Dog

• I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Comedy
  • Travel