Andy Kindler Quotes
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Louie is hugely talented. But I get very annoyed at the way the media... say, 'Louis C.K. is the greatest stand-up in the world.' He's not the greatest stand-up in the world. He's not funnier than Dave Attell.
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'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'
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I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.
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I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.
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I'm not a confrontational person in real life, so I really don't wanna get into arguments or fistfights with people I'm making fun of.
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I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I'm in a deli somewhere, and someone says they love that Adam Sandler movie where he dresses up as his twin sister - well, I don't want to make people feel bad for how they feel about things. I'm always courteous, not mean.
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The right wing is appealing to a shrinking, shrinking demographic of angry white people who blame their predicament in life on the fact that there are immigrants coming into the country; it's pretty ludicrous.
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I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.
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I always had a tremendous amount of rage about the business, and I thought turning that into comedy was healthy.
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I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.
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I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.
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I've always felt that there's a Catskills comic who lives in my head and is constantly trying to get out. There's all these jokes that have been passed down from Jewish generation to Jewish generation, which I love but which I've always made fun of.
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I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie.
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I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.
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I have to say, after hanging out with Republicans for four days, I want to take a look at my own birth certificate. I don't think I was born in this country.
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If I love a comic but they have an off night, who am I to say they should have taken out this or added that? It doesn't work that way... I have no interest in hurting people's feelings.
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I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.
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I'm still doing what I've always wanted to do, and how big it gets or how much money I make for it or how popular I am in the public's eye is really not that important, even though it's hard to let that go.
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I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.
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I'm not really in Louis CK's circle. It'd probably be harder if we were really close and I went off on him.
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I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with.
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There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.
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I'm not trying to do anything except entertain America.
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I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It's such a tricky thing; you don't want to make rules about it. There's nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he'd break every rule you set up. But he's funny.