There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they’re not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.
If you actually do cold readings, it’s very close to how people actually talk, because you’re experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.
I’m not familiar with the metric system.
If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.
If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.
It’s like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.
I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We’ll see.
But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they’ve not heard. And if you put an album out, just consider that material gone. At least that’s how I see it.
90% of every art form is garbage – dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that’s good, suck it up, and drive on.
As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.
As unhealthy as I am, I’m weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
Even if it’s other people, like on MySpace pages, we’re just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we’re in.
Doing ‘Young Adult’ was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.
I can’t say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.
All the truly great stand-ups say, “I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I’m doing my work.” To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.
If you play comedic scenes like they’re really serious, then it’s so much more funny than if you’re going for a laugh.
I don’t want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.
The truly great actors, like Charlize Theron, are just like, “I’m an actor. For hire. I show up, I do my job.” There’s no “I’m just waiting for the inspiration.” They just do their jobs. They say, “Let’s go over the scene a few times and get it.”