Danny McBride Quotes

I don't really care about awards.

So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.

I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since.

If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.

I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.

I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.

I found this bag of fireworks in the men's restroom. Would you guys like to light them off?

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.