Wain Quotes

#1. I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

Paul Rudd

#2. He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.

H.G.Wells

#3. When the houses of the great collapse
Many little people are slain.
Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty
Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging
wain
Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.

Bertolt Brecht

#4. I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?

Kathryn Hahn

#5. I've been a big fan of David Wain's and was honored to get to be in one of his projects.

Bill Hader

#6. When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.

Bill Hader

#7. How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

John Wain

#8. And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

John Wain

#9. Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

David Wain

#10. One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Wain

#11. There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

John Wain

#12. Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

David Wain

#13. Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

C.S. Lewis

#14. I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

David Wain

#15. When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?

Chuck Klosterman

#16. Speak your mind, but ride a very fast horse!!

John Wain

#17. Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.

Anthony Liccione

#18. You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

Bill Lee

#19. There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

Zakes Mda

#20. For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

Greg Berlanti

#21. I've come to the possible conclusion that being a comedic writer/director is like running track. You do it for a certain amount of time and then you have to stop. Or you at least have to accept that you're not going to be at the top of your game. And that's OK.

David Wain

#22. We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened.

David Wain

#23. I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

David Wain

#24. I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

David Wain

#25. I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

David Wain

#26. This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

George W. Bush

#27. Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.

David Wain

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John Wain

#29. A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.

Louis Wain

#30. I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.

David Wain

#31. I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

David Wain

#32. Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

David Wain

#33. Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

David Wain

#34. You could be making so much money, and your bank statement gets bigger and bigger, but if you're not psyched to go to work in the morning, it doesn't matter. It sucks. So you wanna just be psyched to see the people that you work with, and have fun with. Then you've won.

David Wain

#35. The high shelf
Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm,
Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end.

John Wain

#36. Intelligence in the cat is underrated.

Louis Wain