Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Quotes

“I tried just as hard at the stuff that didn't work as I did at the stuff that worked.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Victoria Jackson would have been a riot on The Tonight Show in the fifties…the 1850s! Gooooood-night!!”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“I'm in this to entertain myself.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“...[A]lways [...] put [your] work in front of people. Get those laughs. Or call up them crickets. ...[Y]ou need to have that audience in mind, sitting right there, eager to laugh, or scowl and grunt disapprovingly.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Demons wilt at genuine self-confidence.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“We made our way forward employing the three steps to success in showbiz: 1. Persistence 2. Begging 3. Waiting—then start again at the top”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“A deep self-loathing brought out the best in her: “I was a straight C student, a middle-of-the-roader in every aspect of my life. A quitter. Just a quitter.” How could I not love her attitude? That’s the attitude that fueled a million grunge-rock songs and painful revelations; in this case it fueled a whole new wave of comedy.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Good stuff starts in dumb places.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Something beautiful dies with success: the freedom to flail. But for now, and for the next few years, Fox would flail, and I would benefit. I’ve learned that, just like Del, “I belong in struggling organizations.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Awkward beginnings are when good things can still happen.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Somewhere in the middle of shooting that first scene in Saul’s law office, after a verbal run of Saul’s flimflammery, a crew member, lost in the scrum around the camera, shouted out, “Can I get a job on the spin-off?!” And everybody laughed.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Here’s what I can admit to right out of the gate, and it’s tragic: I tried just as hard at the stuff that didn’t work as I did at the stuff that worked.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite films is Breathless, by Jean-Luc Godard.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“You seem like a nice person, but, seriously, read books more carefully next time.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“story around”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“story. Hawley had”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“It’s fun to visit New York and get lost in the sea of humanity. But to get lost and stay lost, to not be able to find yourself or feel like you matter anywhere, at any time…It messed with my head. Many”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Also, I’m dying… in the sense that we all are. And on that bright note—buy the book already, your plane and/ or toilet seat awaits.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“One trick for surviving Hollywood’s beatdown is to keep making new things in spite of every “no.” To somehow stay in touch with the joy that brought you into the game.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“David’s Situation (2008)”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“The Derek and Simon (2007) short films for HBO were about two friends who cockblock each other, reliably. A cast of young amazings including Zach Galifianakis, Jake Johnson, Ashley Johnson, and Eric Edelstein joined us. It”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“the Upfront Comedy Showcase, in Santa Monica—and renamed it the Grand National Championships.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“That’s what acting is!”—lose yourself in the part, bring an entire world with you onto the stage. Inhabit that imagined world fully and the audience will join you there.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“I rarely paid for the inky blather, but the mechanics of Mad are good circuitry to burn into any future comedy writer’s brain.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“The Kids in the Hall were doing everything pretty much right in my book. Their show hung together, was distinctive, really likable, and you got to know them even while they were playing stridently strange characters. Plus they had a number of homes for the show, all in off-brand time slots and locales—right where it belonged. This made me envious and mad. Not at the guys—I liked them all—but at Canada in general. Somehow they were able to bring Canadian niceness to the brain-warping comic mayhem. How much maple syrup do I have to drink to become that nonthreatening? There isn’t enough in the world.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“Python was like my Bible, and in many ways it provoked contemplation just like that ratty old book. Also, it was kinder and more truthful.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama