Top 49 Reggie Watts Quotes
#1. I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially like art that leaves me a little confused and uncertain as to what just happened.
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#2. I'm pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun.
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#3. I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.
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#4. My thing is, I like to do things as long as they're relatively fluid or easy. Not to say that there isn't any effort involved in making something happen, but I don't like to push things or force things too much.
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#5. I try not to eat right before I perform. It's better to perform on an empty stomach - it just feels better. You just feel like a leaner machine. You're not worrying about digesting things.
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#6. Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.
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#7. I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.
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#8. Common knowledge, but important nonetheless
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#9. If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.
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#10. Sometimes airport security people recognize me. I'll go through the whole screening process and at the end they'll go, 'Hey, man, I really like your work.' That's so cool.
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#11. I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.
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#12. I like joking around and being a little mischievous. Once an audience or even a group of friends realizes that you're being benevolent about it, then they're along for the ride.
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#13. The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.
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#14. Music is very similar to comedy: It's all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone's onstage doing a solo, essentially it's the same thing as what a comedian does. They're in the moment. They're listening.
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#15. I'm hypoglycemic, so if I don't eat I start to get really blood-sugar crazy. I feel like I'm going insane.
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#16. I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do.
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#17. Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.
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#18. The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.
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#19. I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
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#20. Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.
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#21. At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.
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#22. As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.
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#23. Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.
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#24. I don't really like to drink. I don't like the way alcohol feels or tastes. On occasion I'll do it as a social thing, just to kind of go, 'Hey! I did something with you guys!'
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#25. Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.
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#26. If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.
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#28. My mom was a pretty hard worker. She worked her ass off, but I'd say we were middle class. I had a car in high school, so I loved the idea that I could mimic this lifestyle.
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#29. I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.
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#30. Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.
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#31. I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am.
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#32. Every performance is an opportunity to have something new or to learn something new.
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#33. As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.
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#34. We're all just memories of our future selves.
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#35. Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.
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#36. No matter how big a comedian gets, they're ultimately all just a bunch of nerds with their weird insecurities. You realize these are just the people in high school who were making people laugh.
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#37. I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.
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#38. I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially.
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#39. I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of the flying cars.
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#40. I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.
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#41. What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.
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#42. I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.
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#43. I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too.
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#44. In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.
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#46. As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python' ... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.
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#47. I love the idea of something beautiful happening, and then it being abrasively cut into. Because in a way it's similar to switching channels or surfing the web; I like people getting lulled into something and then taking them somewhere else.
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#48. In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.
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#49. I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that's great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.
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