Quotes by Michael Mckean - Page 1

My wife makes an amazing chili.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Chili
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It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Clever
Spinal Tap
Stupid
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I'm not really a gourmet. I like to try new things.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Gourmet
New Things
New New Things Try
New Try Things
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I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Saved
Sketch Comedy
Pray
Mr
Sketch
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To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Sequel
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I watch my wife knitting, and it's like watching close-up magic to me.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Close-Up
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Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Banality
Benign
Kind
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That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Jobs
Break
Breaks
Friendships
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Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?
Michael Mckean / Actor
Mistake
Musical
Rock N Roll
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When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Figure Skating
Figures
Profit
Way
Tour
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I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Credit
Over You
Writing
Credits
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It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Gloves
Desires
Examine
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I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Believe
Regret
Thinking
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Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Long
Long Time
People
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I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Sound
Style
Thinking
Ear
Pretty Good
Pump
Sounds
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They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Stephen King
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Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Academic
People
Self
World
World Me People
Avoid
Quote
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I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Hours
People Will Know
Bar
Eater
Oyster
Raw
Sit
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You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Cases
Ridicule
Where Your Situation
Dictate
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Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Amazing
Most Amazing
Wonderful
Catherine
Improviser
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A character has to believe in himself, so I have to find a way to believe in them. Or at least sympathize to a degree.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Sympathize
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I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Intense
Long Day
Work Home Me
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There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Black And White
People
Special
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Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Interesting Characters
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People seem to think if you're successful, then you have some secret. The fact is, you've just managed to work your life a certain way.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Life Work Your
Certain Way
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David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon money came in.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Carnegie
September
David
Tech
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'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Clue
Almost Everyone
Me People Everyone
Flop
References
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The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Depends
Song
Thinking
Two
Exactly
Exactly The Same
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I'm not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I've never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Brain Power
Thank God
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I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Band
Thinking
Whimsy
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I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Deaf
Mute
Plenty
Pulling
Robins
Rope
Thinking
Everyone Else
Robin
Williams
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Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!
Michael Mckean / Actor
Fun
Loud
Quiet
Sight
Song
Acoustic
Somewhere
Drop
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I don't eat steak often, maybe once a month. But when I do, it really hits the spot. When you're done with your steak and your mashed potatoes and your green beans, you really know you've had dinner.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Beans
Mashed Potatoes
Potatoes
Steak
Month
Spot
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I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Birth
Love Amazing City
Winters
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I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil today?' is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Villain
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I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Hey
Things Happen
Good Me Never
Hire
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After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Glad
Goofy
Next Door
Offered
Shirley
Ton
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I was working with Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' We were about to make an entrance together - I was Hoover, he was LBJ - and he says to me, 'You should play the brother in 'Better Call Saul.' I was like 'What?' and it was time to go on. I'm doing the scene, and I can't think of what Hoover's supposed to say.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Brother
Bryan
Hoover
Scene
Time Together Me
Call
Entrance
Saul
Says
Supposed
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On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the subway home from your play, you realize what you did wrong, and you go back the next night and you do it better, or you screw it up again in a different way. It's a different thing altogether.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Subway
Too Late
Way Home
Altogether
Different Thing
Screw
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As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.
Michael Mckean / Actor
Morning
Character
Real
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