Michael Ian Black Quotes
Top 49 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
Even to me, a sufferer, 'depression' seems like a fetid load of weaselly claptrap, a cheap and easy excuse for not participating in life.
With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.
Whenever anyone asks me if I'm from a TV show, I say yes - no matter whether I've ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.
I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.
Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.
I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.
The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.
There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.
If I have any faith at all, I guess that's it. Faith in the small love that keeps our family together.
If I had three wishes for my country, they would be these: keep fighting, keep moving forward, and don't act like a douchebag.
Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.
Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.
I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.
I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.
It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."
So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.
I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"
If they have to drag some of you fucking fuckers out of here in body bags, I will be so fucking stoked.
Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.
The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.
I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months ... and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.
The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.
People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company.
I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.