As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.
Bobcat Goldthwait
I started doing comedy when I was a teenager with Tom Kenny, who is the voice of SpongeBob. I don't want to name drop, but, I've known him since I was 6.
People go, 'Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,' and I go, 'Ehhh.'
The first time I was on Letterman, I was, like, 20 years old, and I was on a show called 'Camping with Barry White Night.'
My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.
My wife and daughter both bust me on how much I am the guy yelling at kids to get off my lawn.
I don't get too hung up on what people think of me.
When I first started directing, I could have chosen a more lucrative path, with sitcoms and things like that. But I knew enough after the experiences I had in front of the camera that I was not going to do that, because I was just going to work on my own things or work with people I respected.
I'm always amazed that people are interested in comedy.
I'm always wondering, if Bigfoot's not real, then why does this creature show up in all these different cultures? I'm always fascinated by that kind of stuff.
I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.
Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.
I actually really like being in the woods.
I've always been battling this perception people have of me, this character. It follows me around. 'Bubba the Bear' shows up when I'm checking into a hotel, when I'm on a plane. I can't get upset with people if they're only aware of a small part of my body of work. But inside I do.
In the rock n' roll world, I'm someone who's responsible and levelheaded.
Even when I was a kid - I was really young - I was drawn to comedy.
I'd still like to work with Woody Allen.
Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been emancipated.
I'm kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, 'Oh, I'm the protagonist.'
I like genre films.
I like movies that don't fit in a category. Like, 'Get Out' - that was one of my favorite movies in a long time, and what is that?
I really like 'Disaster Artist.'
I didn't feel ever that people needed to know who I was.
I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.
The movies I make don't take place in reality.
I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.
I'm making movies about people as flawed as myself and the viewers. So if you just have a reptilian brain and live your life simply by reacting to things, my movies aren't going to work for you.
I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.
Success is for creeps.
I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.
I think I hang out with some pretty witty people, but we're never that funny.
I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and clubs for over 30 years. That's a long time.
I do think there are more people who would probably related to my movies and who aren't aware of them.
My movies are always about the kooks and the outsiders.
I'm fully aware of people's perception of me, so when I start taking myself too seriously, I have to remember that, to them, I'm just the guy from 'Police Academy.'
I actually believe that the basis of a good relationship isn't liking the same things, it's hating the same things.
I'm always dealing with this sadness. I don't want to be Morrissey or anything, but it is a thing I deal with it. Every day, when I wake up, I have to make a decision to fight this depression. That sounds horrible but I'm fine with it; it's who I am; it's my life. I try not to let it cripple me.
I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.
Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it's like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something.
I don't find movies shocking.
I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.
I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't any different from my singing.
I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.'
Michael Moore got booed at the Oscars, so how liberal is Hollywood? Honestly, it's not liberal enough for me!
Obviously I don't hate America. I do believe that we are becoming - and I can only judge it by my lifetime, 'cause I don't know what it was like in the 1800s - but it just seems that as a nation, we are becoming really, really nasty, and not concerned with any kind of truth.
I don't read or watch anything that has to do with Lindsay Lohan.
I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.
It's really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.
I do live a very Hugh Beaumont existence. I'm up every morning, taking my kids to school and all that, which obviously does interest me. But then it's taking meetings with goofballs and auditioning for crap, and then I spend a lot of time on the road.
I was really big in the '80s.
