Nick Offerman Quotes
Top 88 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Nick Offerman on Wise Famous Quotes.
When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."
My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.
I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.
No one will ever ask me to sing because it's beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor.
Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.
I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.
If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.
If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.
I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.
When I got my job on 'Parks,' it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn't think a job that excellent could exist for me.
I like to play women who are not strong at all, because, there's certainly plenty of myself that is no kind of a warrior.
I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.
I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.
A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.
We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.
The key lies in finding the delicious flavorings in one's life, no matter how fancy your blue jeans may or may not be.
I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.
Damn it all, you have been given a life on this beautiful planet! Get off your ass and do something!
I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.
If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.
I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.
No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.
but, like an alcoholic or a fan of the Dave Matthews Band, he ultimately couldn't control his self-destructive addiction.
I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.
We didn't have to do anything to have a good time. It's an incredible gift to be able to make your own fun.
And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.
If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?
Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.
I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.
If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.
I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.
My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.
I can tell you I've crunched the numbers time and time again; it is always more fun to have eight people with one beer than one man with eight beers.
People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.
I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.
How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.
Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.
When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.
I am always so happy to be at 'SNL.' I still feel like a kid when I'm there, like I can't believe I'm watching them make the show.
I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.
I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.