Quotes by Zach Galifianakis - Page 3

I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
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Humor
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I don't really have a pattern yet. I don't know if I'll develop one. As far as comedic integrity, I don't have integrity in general, comedic or otherwise.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Comedic
Integrity
Patterns
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I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Funny
Humor
Reality
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I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Night
Trying
Writing
Night Day Every Day
Fail
Onstage
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My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Funny
Couple
Girlfriend
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My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Bunch
Character
Real
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My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Funny
Humor
Brother
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Funny
Choices
High School
People
School
Talk
Funny Myself People
Choice
Necessarily
Sit
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I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Laughing
Powerful
Thinking
Good People Laugh
Messaging
Powerful Thing
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I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Ironic
People
Want
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Baby
Light
People
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I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Interesting
Looks
Woody
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I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Drinking
Night
Stars
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We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Blood
Carolina
Coffee
Growing Up
North Carolina
Politics Family Always
Background
Debates
Drink Coffee
North
Talked
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Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Agree
American Politics
Influence
Left
Too Much
Politics Good Money
Influences
Outside
System
Too Much Money
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Diet
Pepsi
Yourself Look Way
Talk
Actor
Younger
Bring
Human Being
Word
Types
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I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Guy
Needs
Watches
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But comedy is like music, it appeals to some people. Some people like Creed, those people are usually pretty stupid. But they probably also like Carrot Top. I would say that they're part of the same ilk.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Comedy
People
Stupid
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'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Baskets
Interesting
Looks
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Actors
Comic
Hollywood
Thinking
First Place
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood - sometimes I get superbummed.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Cartoon
Mood
Giant
Wanting
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Great Things
Limits
People
Standing
Yelling
Just Be
Onstage
Push
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the "Girlfriend in a Coma" is, like, really funny.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Girlfriend
Mean
Song
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Life Funny My Life
Funniest
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Carolina
Colony
Land
North Carolina
People
Want
Writing
Around
Out
Write
Either
Farm
Groom
Hang
Place
Put
North
Soon
Tractor
Where
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Disagree
Down And
Long
Senators
Thinking
Time Long Day
All Day
Exists
Personally
Wiped
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I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Frustration
Real
Thinking
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I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Acting
Burned
Monkeys
Want
Complete
Monkey
Standup
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You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Concern
Delirium
Kicking
Long
Long Hours
Tired
Work Me Long
Work Tired Me
Below
Work Tired Long
Fifteenth
Hour
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I'm proud of The Hangover, but to be in movies like this, which are really the only places I can get work, it's really quite the opposite of what I am. I like sensitive art-house movies. I'm not even much of a partier. I mean, I'll drink myself into oblivion alone in my car.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Art
Hangover
Mean
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Burned
Goal
Grass
Greener
Long
Writing
Time Movies Me
Time Movies Always
Gig
Mixture
Smaller
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I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the romanticism about being on the road is you get to meet a lot of - my mom once told me, "You've probably got a woman at every port." Like I'm a pirate. Obviously she doesn't know her son that well.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Mom
Lonely
Son
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Dumb
Existence
People
Stupid
Thinking
Adapt
Publicist
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Auditions
Deals
Grandmother
Mean
People
Wave
Work Internet People
Basement
Gotten
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Choosy
Librarian
Entertainer
Certain Things
Gosh
Greatest Thing
Resume
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Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Funny
Humor
Crazy
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I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Cute
Smile
Mathematician
Past
Pounds
Stunning
Two
Weight
Years
Success Work Me
Conclusions
Diagram
Draw
Drew
Earlier
Gain
Send
Twenty
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Brother
Choosy
Down The Road
Goal
Hopefully
Ivory
Brothers
Wait
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Corners
Hangover
Paint
Comedians
Change Time Character
Monkey
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I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people are desperate, and a lot of people are clueless, including me. It's hard to try to figure it out. I've never told you, but I have head shots that if you saw them... they're so terrible! It's so embarrassing.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
California
Clueless
Thinking
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I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don't wear deodorant. I don't have to. I have a miraculous body scent. I've had women smell me and say that should be bottled. I would advise guys to lay off the Drakkar, because the cavemen weren't wearing it. They might have been putting mint leaves on their balls, but your scent is grown naturally. I have really good dating advice.
Zach Galifianakis / Stand-Up Comedian
Dating
Guy
Smell
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