Brett Gelman Quotes
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Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them.
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I hate it when I see people texting at a show. And talking to each other. They're at a performance; they should respect the performer.
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I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.
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I don't hate oatmeal raisin, but it is the worst cookie. Profoundly disappointing.
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Even if somebody is maybe a little less qualified, you can bring them in, you can teach them, and it will also make your work better because you'll have different perspectives. Even if somebody is less talented, they're coming at it from a completely different perspective, and that helps your work.
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I think it's good news that cable television is so, so supportive of the Louis C.K.s, the Lena Dunhams, the Matthew Weiners, and the Vince Gilligans. There's just so many people fearlessly making their stuff, you know?
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I really am not that hairy on my body. It's weird.
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As someone who is on the more liberal side of things, I personally think this side needs to be a little less open. I know that's part of what it means to be on the more liberal side of things, but that trait can no longer really be a part of our makeup. The simple reason for this is that the opposing side uses our openness to their full advantage.
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I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint.
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There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.
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Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.
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At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.
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I like being strange. I like being hyperbolic and surreal.
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I've never gone to a bachelor party, where I didn't, no matter how much I loved the people there, hate them so much for their disgusting behavior.
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I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.
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What doesn't kill you, if you use it to make yourself stronger, then you will get stronger. But if you let it beat you down, then you will be weaker.
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I love Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but if I'm not in the right frame of mind to watch their work, I feel upset after watching it.
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There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.
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Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the world.
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Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
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Jason Woliner and I have been longtime friends and collaborators.
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I think the thing that really started setting my career on the course that it's on is when I did 1000 Cats on Funny or Die Presents on HBO. That's what I feel like kind of got me a little bit more into the system.
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I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?
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The Producers is my favorite movie, and my favorite performances of all time are Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and I feel like I strive to be a combination of those two guys.