Tom Green Quotes

#1. I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

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#2. I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

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#3. Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid

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#4. I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.

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#5. I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.

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#6. It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.

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#7. It's such a huge endeavor putting a full movie together, especially an independent movie. I tend to kind of do them when they come my way more than something than I go out and actively pursue.

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#8. Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.

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#9. We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.

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#10. Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

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#11. I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.

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#12. It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.

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#13. I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot.

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#14. I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.

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#15. I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.

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#16. I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.

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