Bob Odenkirk Quotes

I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.

The laugh is what trumps everything.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

I don't think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.

I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.

I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Comedy is tragedy plus timing.

I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.

Comedy can be destructive, and still very, very funny. But if I can do something that is fun to watch and critical of the world but not wantonly destructive, I pursue those [kinds of] ideas more.

In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

People ask me what's advice for young writers and one of of the things I say is try to get in a room with people who are better than you. If you're the best person in the room you gotta get out of that room.

Whenever someone says, I love writing,' I always think, 'You probably suck at writing.

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life.

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.