Paul Scheer Quotes

#1. Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.

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#2. Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!'

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#3. My background is in improv and writing.

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#4. It's funny to think of Dave Chappelle's show and how popular it was and he was before YouTube. I would imagine 'Chappelle's Show' would be even more giant if there was a chance to put his stuff online and pass it around.

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#5. I saw every single movie when I was a kid.

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#6. Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

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#7. There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.

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#8. Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

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#9. Vincent Forte was kicked out of the UFC because he was too hardcore.

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#10. Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on '24,' but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he's a jerk who can beat up bad people.

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#11. FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

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#12. I'm married, and my wife has set out very limited Xbox limits. But if I had my druthers, I'd be playing all the time and never see any of my friends or do any work.

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#13. You're only as good as your body of work.

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#14. The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

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#15. I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

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#16. The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film.

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