Will Arnett Quotes

#1. I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy.

Dax Shepard

#2. Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.

Jason Bateman

#3. Will Arnett and I were never in the same room, but once I saw early animation we started writing music for that and then he just kind of did his little rap over top, some of it was free form and some of it I made up, we all just kind of contributed to it.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#4. Everybody has some good in them and they can be relied on.

Will Arnett

#5. If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.

Will Arnett

#6. But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.

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#7. You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

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#8. (on Blades of Glory) Playing the assholes in the movie is fun.

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#9. I remember asking my dad, "Why didn't you ever move to the States? You probably could have made a lot more money." My dad said, "Because I have an obligation to give back." I always admired him for that.

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#10. There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

Peter Arnett

#11. No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

Will Arnett

#12. This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

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#13. I don't want to make a show about AA because it's a personal experience for anybody who is a part of that. My relationship with it has changed over the years, and I wanted the show to reflect that in a real way.

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#14. I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

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#15. Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

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#16. I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

Peter Arnett

#17. Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't ... I hadn't even thought about it.

Will Arnett

#18. And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.

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#19. Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light on it. Chip is trying to be a better person and lead a better life. His methods are just super flawed.

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#20. Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me.

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#21. We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.

Alan Arnett McLeod

#22. Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV ... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

Will Arnett

#23. I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.

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#24. I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

Will Arnett

#25. President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.

Peter Arnett

#26. (On his Emmy nomination) I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.

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#27. It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a ... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

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#28. Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else
it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

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#29. When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

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#30. It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

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#31. The show had run its course on the Fox network.

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#32. Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.

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#33. And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

Will Arnett

#34. I can't help but imagine what that would be like - to be all alone on this island with eternity taunting me with loneliness. To say goodbye to the last human you will ever see - there is no crueler hand of fate.

Jennifer Arnett

#35. I probably suffered from ADHD, but they weren't so quick to diagnose it back then. For PE, they'd drop you in the woods with a compass and a pack of matches. It gave you confidence that you could rely on yourself.

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#36. I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

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#37. But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was ... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.

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#38. You've got to rely on people that you trust and you love.

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#39. And we ... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.

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#40. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.

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#41. When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

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#42. There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

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#43. When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

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#44. Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was ... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

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#45. I never really spent time being jealous. Maybe I should have.

Will Arnett

#46. Well, we were never coming back to Fox ... that was clear.

Will Arnett

#47. Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

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#48. When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore ... it's disappointing.

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