Rob Corddry Quotes
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I've been an Apple guy since the mid 80's and that's when I was like, "Boy, you guys really got me here. I know exactly what you're doing, right down to your price points."
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I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.
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I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.
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If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.
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Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.
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Stand-up is a real art form in itself and one that I really think to be good at you have to devote your entire life to. It's the really, really good ones that end up getting to do the things that I like to do: movies, TV shows, and stuff like that. It's a really hard gig and it just never called to me.
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I get all of my comedy from CNN.
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I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."
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I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.
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I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.
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I'm a complete egomaniac. It makes me feel terrible to say [being interviewed] is hard. It's taxing in a way. Just 'cause it's a lot of mental energy just to keep focused. I actually think it's harder for journalists.
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My job was basically to look at a good friend completely naked and rub lotion on her back. I was naked too, but I got to put a towel on almost immediately. So I was like, "Well, this is going to be embarrassing, but it's also going to be kinda awesome."
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The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
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Anything would deserve a sequel if the right elements are there.
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I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted.
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If it's January, I'm dead in three hours. But in June, I'd be hungry, but I'd make it out. I'd find my way without a map or compass. I say that with confidence. I can build a fire without a match.
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It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."
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If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.
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It looks like garbage, my ass. But trust me, you're lucky it's not full-frontal.
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Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
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If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not "The Naked Guy." I don't care.
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I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.
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I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.
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This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.
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I have to stay true to myself.
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I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's always a best friend and the woman has a best friend and they always antagonise each other and then they end up together at the end of the movie.
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I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.
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As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.
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Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.
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I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.
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