Brett Gelman Quotes
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I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really awesome. That is more the work that I'm leaning towards doing.
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I love Brody Stevens. He's one of my favorite stand-ups.
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
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I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just weren't seeing, and she knew that I could go beyond the normal, funny 'make-em-ups' that I was doing on an improv stage.
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I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.
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Talking is not action. Don't just look at what you say. Look at how you socialize.
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The world is pretty messed up.
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We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.
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Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.
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I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.
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What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off.
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I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.
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I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.
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Don't be proud of me. Do something to make yourself proud of yourself.
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We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're going to feel how you feel. It's hard to just set up a way that you're going to live your life that is going to be just endlessly happy and healthy. That's impossible.
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I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.
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I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.
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Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.
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I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.
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All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.