Quotes by Sam Richardson - Page 1

There's no place I love more than Detroit.
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Detroit
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Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.
Sam Richardson /
Vain
Me More Like
Dumber
Sam
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I think Detroit deserves a comedy that's not about suffering.
Sam Richardson /
Comedy
Detroit
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I really enjoy 'Baskets.' I'm a big fan of 'Archer' and 'Mr. Robot.'
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Big Fan
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The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.
Sam Richardson /
Improvisation
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I use Postmates more than I use the actual telephone app on my phone.
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Actual
App
Telephone
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I was a shy kid up until the sixth grade, and then I started to let loose.
Sam Richardson /
Shy
Sixth
Grade
Loose
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I'm an audiophile and have been collecting records for as long as I can remember.
Sam Richardson /
Collecting
Long Remember I Can
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I think everybody, from whatever town they're from, knows their hometown commercials.
Sam Richardson /
Hometown
Commercials
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The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.
Sam Richardson /
Blind
Periphery
Spots
Miss
Interesting Thing
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I want to play my Joker. Not the Joker, but my Joker. Somebody who can have fun doing wrong.
Sam Richardson /
Joker
Have Fun
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My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.
Sam Richardson /
Detroit
Ghana
Africa
Forth
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As far as magazines, I'll read 'GQ' to see where men's fashion is, but that's really kind of it.
Sam Richardson /
Gq
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My cousin Dwayne was really the first person who was like, 'You're funny, man!' I was like, 'OK, sure.'
Sam Richardson /
Cousin
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There are people there who live, work, and have lives. Not everybody who lives in Detroit is a gangsta.
Sam Richardson /
Detroit
Work Live People
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A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it's such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end.
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Tangible
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I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.
Sam Richardson /
Life Done My Life
Entirely
Life My Life Done
Improv
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The movie I've seen the most is 'Ghostbusters' or 'Ghostbusters II.' I used to watch those movies nonstop.
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Nonstop
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I left Detroit in 2007, worked on a cruise ship for a year, moved to Chicago in '08, then moved to L.A. in February 2012.
Sam Richardson /
Cruise
Detroit
February
Ship
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Being on 'Veep,' it's so much fun, and I get to put so much creative input in there, but at the end of the day, what they say, I do.
Sam Richardson /
Input
Creative Input
End Of The Day Fun Day
So Much Fun
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I've worked on shows where the set was very morose and boring, kind of like nobody wanted to be there. I felt that affects the work.
Sam Richardson /
Affects
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On 'Veep,' people are connecting with each other, even if they're making backhanded comments about somebody behind someone else's back.
Sam Richardson /
Connecting
Comments
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Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you'd be fine.
Sam Richardson /
Grenade
Drops
Jump
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With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power of government.
Sam Richardson /
Government
Angle
Character
Also
Believes
He
Richard
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I would love to carry on with Second City and see where that takes me, but it's always been a dream to work on 'Saturday Night Live' and do films.
Sam Richardson /
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Second City
Love Work City
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I went to an all-boys high school, and I didn't realize I was going to a Catholic all-boys school until right before I got there. I was so bummed that it was all boys.
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Catholic
School Right High School
Bummed
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My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from the States, so even in my family when I was growing up, my mom said I was the American one, and my dad said I was the weird African one.
Sam Richardson /
Ghana
Family Mom Dad
African
Family Dad Mom
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I feel that, a lot of times, Detroiters have an aversion to seeing nice new things come into Detroit. But I'm like, 'What's wrong with that? Everywhere else has it! Why can't we?'
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Aversion
Detroit
New Things
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If you want to land a punchline for how bad something is, you say 'Detroit,' even, like, in conversation. 'Oh, well, things could be worse. You could be in Detroit.' It makes me so mad.
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Detroit
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When you consume a half hour or an hour of television, you can talk about what happened as opposed to consuming ten hours of content, and then you don't remember everything you want to talk about.
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Consume
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I can do so many accents that I'll never be able to use. There aren't casting calls for a black guy to play a Scottish highlander. I can hope. I've got my brogue ready. I just need the opportunity!
Sam Richardson /
Casting
Scottish
Calls
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What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they are. What's funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it's a swan.
Sam Richardson /
Funny
Ballet
Blind
Seeing
Spots
Anybody
Funniest
Funniest Thing
Realize
Swan
Thinks
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I try to tweet, but I still haven't gotten into the rhythm as much as some people who have, like, 20,000 tweets. There are some great comedians on there, so you get some pretty funny hot takes and bits.
Sam Richardson /
Bits
Rhythm
Tweet
Funny Great People
Comedians
Tweets
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I've worked on shows where it's fun; you want to hang out. If you're enjoying it, that's how you take ownership of it. You want to give to be a part of this thing. I feel that's the mood on the set of 'Detroiters.'
Sam Richardson /
Mood
Ownership
Enjoying
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I've eaten part of my tooth. I had a weird cavity that broke apart in my teeth - this is a bad story. I was eating and thought, 'It's like I'm swallowing rocks,' and then I checked and part of my tooth is missing. I ate it.
Sam Richardson /
Broke
Missing
Rocks
Swallowing
Teeth
Ate
Checked
Eaten
Tooth
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When you grow up with siblings, you can be like, 'Isn't this weird? Isn't this funny? Do we agree on this, or do we disagree?' You have some point of reference, some touchstone. When you grow up an only child, everything is internalized.
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Disagree
Only Child
Sibling
Reference
Touchstone
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At Second City and improvising at iO, you're creating a character in an instant. All of a sudden, you're creating this history and this past for your character, and you're discovering it while you're doing it, and that's part of the fun of it.
Sam Richardson /
Discovering
Improvising
Instant
Second City
Sudden
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I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.
Sam Richardson /
Cousin
Fourth
Only Child
Painter
Family Mom Dad
Essentially
Family Dad Mom
Separated
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I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters.' I loved that movie before I knew it was a comedy! As a kid, I lived between Ghana and Detroit and in Ghana for, like, first and second grade. And I had a VHS tape of that, and I would watch it every day. It's kind of like why I got into comedy.
Sam Richardson /
Movie
Comedy
Detroit
Ghana
Grew
Tape
Had
Why
Before
Between
Loved
First
Day
Watch
Every Day
Got
Grade
Second
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I grew up between Detroit and Ghana, and I had to make friends in an instant. It sharpened my wit, and also, just for my own sanity's sake, I felt like I wanted to entertain myself. So I'm going through all these experiences, and I ask myself, 'Is this crazy? Is it? Wait, what's so funny about this?'
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Detroit
Ghana
Instant
Sake
Sanity
Wit
Entertain
Sharpened
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Performing in Detroit or performing in Chicago, you're on your own turf, but when you tour a show, the audiences change. You're in a completely different space; sensibilities change. I think I learned a lot from doing that - how written material works in different places, learning to have confidence, learning the idea of how to be adaptable.
Sam Richardson /
Adaptable
Detroit
Turf
Audiences
Different Places
Sensibilities
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