William Emerson Arnett Quotes
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When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.
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Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.
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But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.
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The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.
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Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.
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This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
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Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.
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Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.
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If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.
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When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.
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You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.
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That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I spent many years struggling to get work, and there are a lot of people more talented than myself who got jobs before me. And I finally, after years and years and years, got lucky.
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I never really spent time being jealous. Maybe I should have.
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I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.
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You've got to rely on people that you trust and you love.
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It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.