Patton Oswalt Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Patton Oswalt
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I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.
Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?
There's something kind of beautiful about that pure love of things. Like, "I'll show that I love the thing I love by hating everything else."
Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.
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 Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.
I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.
Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes.
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.
When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.
If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.
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.
Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.
As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.
I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
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.
You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.
Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.
Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure.
If someone like this were to like me, to like my comedy, and to like the way I conduct myself professionally, it would mean that I suck as a person.
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.
I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
I identify [myself] as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.
The great ones show you what you can get away with. The shitty ones remind you what never to bother with.