Adam Pally Quotes

#1. I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the 'Happy Endings' folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally's just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I'd be great to jump on and do some comedy.

James Wolk

#2. I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

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#3. Love hurts. Love is fragile. Love comes like a breath of magic, then departs leaving us feeling empty, alone, a paper cup blowing on the wind.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. 'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.

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#5. I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.

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#6. I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

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#7. My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

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#8. There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

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#9. I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

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#10. My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.

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#11. I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

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#12. The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

Ken Thompson

#13. Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.

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#14. At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

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#15. I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.

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#16. Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

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#17. Then he took me to look at the Maastricht animal, still today one of the world's most famous fossils. (Though the Netherlands has repeatedly asked for it back, the French have held on to it for more than two hundred years.)

Elizabeth Kolbert

#18. I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.

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#19. Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'

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#20. Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.

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#21. My attention span is about this big.

Michael Tait

#22. I moved around a lot as a kid, and when you're always entering new places at that age, you kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.

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#23. 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

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#24. I just want to be normal." - Fenn

Candace Knoebel

#25. When studying the world's religions, there appear to be two primary paths available to those who want to practice their faith. One path is internal and contemplative in nature. The other is emotional, external, and actionable in nature. I have identified these as the paths of oneness and goodness.

Gudjon Bergmann

#26. I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

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#27. I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn't an actor who can just do one thing. I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.

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#28. People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

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#29. To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

Jay L. Garfield

#30. I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.

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#31. Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

Munia Khan

#32. I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

Tre Cool

#33. It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

Corrie Ten Boom

#34. Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.

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