Pally's 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'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

Adam Pally

#3. In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

Dan Savage

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

Adam Pally

#5. 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.

Adam Pally

#6. 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.

Adam Pally

#7. 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.

Adam Pally

#8. 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.

Adam Pally

#9. Have you ever dreamed of one thing for so long, wanted nothing more than to have that dream fulfilled, only to find out that maybe it wasn't what you actually wanted all along?"
He juggled four stones lightly. "I believe that's called growing up.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#10. 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.

Adam Pally

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

Adam Pally

#12. 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.

Adam Pally

#13. Ya gotta love livin', pally, cuz dyin's a pain in the ass!

Frank Sinatra

#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.

Adam Pally

#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.

Adam Pally

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

Adam Pally

#17. Do you know who I would love to play? Morticia Addams - then I could use all that darkness to be funny.

Monica Bellucci

#18. I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

Ioan Gruffudd

#19. 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.

Adam Pally

#20. Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. I read a lot of things, and I keep seeing this brocade of voice where someone is trying to be too pally with you or ingratiating on the page.

Teju Cole

#21. 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.

Adam Pally

#22. I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

Linda Pastan

#23. 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.

Adam Pally

#24. Love is a discovery, God is an invention.

Thiruman Archunan

#25. Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood.

Autumn Reeser

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

Adam Pally

#27. 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.

Adam Pally

#28. 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.

Adam Pally

#29. We have a love-shaped hole within us.

Vironika Tugaleva

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

Adam Pally

#31. Thirty chapters of good deeds never tells you a whole man's story.

Brian K. Vaughan

#32. '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.

Adam Pally

#33. You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

Glenn Turner

#34. 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.

Adam Pally

#35. 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.

Adam Pally

#36. The big man leaned down from his hips and bent his knees a little and breathed in my face.
'What for did you call me Hemingway, pally?'
'There are ladies present.

Raymond Chandler

#37. Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time? he couldn't remember, all he could remember was that at some point thiw was what he believed ...

Roberto Bolano

#38. 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.'

Adam Pally