Quotes by Andy Daly - Page 1

It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely.
Andy Daly / Actor
Brain
Hard
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You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.
Andy Daly / Actor
Able
Character
Ought
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In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.
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Character
Hats
Suits Of Armor
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It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities.
Andy Daly / Actor
Evil
Fun
Play
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I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.
Andy Daly / Actor
Fun
Projects
Rooms
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If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.
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Amy
Bigs
Performers
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I have a couple of ideas for shows that I would love to bring to fruition in some way at some point.
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Couple
Fruition
Ideas
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I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.
Andy Daly / Actor
Dark
Dark Side
Nerdy
Breaking
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I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.
Andy Daly / Actor
Comedy
Thinking
Way
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It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality.
Andy Daly / Actor
Fun
Play
Real
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There were times that I would be drunk and just leave a place by myself because I had an impulse and wasn't thinking through the repercussions on others.
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Drunk
Thinking
Would Be
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I never feel like I have anything. People can tell me a thousand times, 'You're the guy, you're the guy,' and I'm just like, 'We'll see when I'm on the set.'
Andy Daly / Actor
Thousand
Me People Feel
Thousand Times
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There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.
Andy Daly / Actor
Attitude
Stuff
Writing
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When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.
Andy Daly / Actor
Fear Of Failure
Profound
World
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I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.
Andy Daly / Actor
Fun
Spontaneity
Writing
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I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.
Andy Daly / Actor
Giving
Long
Needs
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When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.
Andy Daly / Actor
Comedy
Philosophy
Special
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I have a troubled relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, not just because he kicked me out of a bar but also because it's become clear to me that he was not a good person.
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Bars
Hunters
Troubled Relationship
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One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in 'Midnight Run,' and in a lot of things he's done. I think he's hilarious as the straight man, playing it real.
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Hilarious
Midnight
Time Done Man
Charles
Straight Man
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I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.
Andy Daly / Actor
Contradiction
Personality
Speak
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I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a character and to leave all the hard decision-making to some other room full of suckers!
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Character
Fun
Writing
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I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.
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Character
Guy
Toes
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If anything, in the podcast world, I'm relieved that I don't have to dress like the character. I don't necessarily have to do all of the physicality that conveys the character, but do as much as I need to help me feel like the character.
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Character
Dresses
Needs
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When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live' guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise, so I wanted to get immediately into that.
Andy Daly / Actor
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Second City
Graduated
Immediately
Improv
Improvise
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I can't say the connection is one I've made consciously, but quitting drinking allowed me to be less selfish. My wife would definitely say that one of the major benefits of me quitting drinking is that I have more time and focus for other people.
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Drinking
Selfish
Wife
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If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.
Andy Daly / Actor
Bits
Carefully
Improvise
Onstage
Prepare
Wing
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It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter.
Andy Daly / Actor
Costumes
Furniture
Performers
Props
Improv
Underground
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I never really thought I had much to add to the conversation that was occurring at 'MADtv.' I didn't know what I would do on the show. But I showed up, and I was surprised - it was fun to work on. Everybody there was really nice, and they seemed to be interested in my contributions.
Andy Daly / Actor
Add
Work Fun Never
Contributions
Surprised
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There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics, but that feels real - like you're playing a real person who has real thoughts and feelings, and it's very grounded. I started to watch all comedy through that prism.
Andy Daly / Actor
Feelings
Real
Silly
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I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.
Andy Daly / Actor
Funny
College
Comedy
High School
Nerd
Sketch Comedy
Video
Young Age
Age Myself Always
Acted
Shot
Guys
High School And College
Seemed
Sketch
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I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.
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Clown
Comment
Empty
Fifth
Friday
Impression
Andy
Time Teacher Me
Class Clown
Contain
Desk
Grade
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The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader.
Andy Daly / Actor
Hung
Night
Particular
Related
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Billy
Interested
Christopher
Crystal
Short
Guest
Word
Just Something
Season
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