Latest Larry Wilmore Quotes from Interviews

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• When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things.

  Larry Wilmore

  Eye, Appreciated, Be Good

  Source: www.slate.com

• I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

  Larry Wilmore

  Ideas, Different, Tvs

  Source: deadline.com

• Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.

  Larry Wilmore

  Ownership, Shows, Audience

  Source: deadline.com

• When you work in television you're in the writer's room all the time. You can't take 10 days or a week to go watch movies. Nobody's going to sign up for that. But it's something I had always thought if I was every asked I would definitely do it if I had the time to do it.

  Larry Wilmore

  Watches, Television, Rooms

  Source: deadline.com

• You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.

  Larry Wilmore

  Dark, Energy, Goes On

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.

  Larry Wilmore

  People, Known

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?

  Larry Wilmore

  Spiritual, Personal Transformation, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.

  Larry Wilmore

  Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of the sky, but for me, it was the idea of space exploration that fueled my interest. I grew up in that age of the astronauts, and I was fascinated that we could leave the Earth.

  Larry Wilmore

  Sky, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.

  Larry Wilmore

  Discovery, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

  Larry Wilmore

  Writing, Thinking, Prodigies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

  Larry Wilmore

  Writing, Age, Prodigies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz. I say, "Well, have you taken any courses? You can't just have a passion for it; you have to prepare yourself for a life of it."

  Larry Wilmore

  Taken, Passion, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

  Larry Wilmore

  Kids, Magic, Interest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I remember we had a visit by a helicopter at our school when I was in grade school, and I was punished that day and didn't get to see it. To this day, I am so mad I never got to see that helicopter land! I took my first ride in a helicopter recently, and that's what I thought, "Yes, finally the circle is complete!"

  Larry Wilmore

  School, Land, Circles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

  Larry Wilmore

  Magic, Speak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

  Larry Wilmore

  People, Magic, Stakes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

  Larry Wilmore

  Writing, Worry, Hollywood

  Source: www.wbur.org

• "Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.

  Larry Wilmore

  Real, Mean, Expression

  Source: www.wbur.org

• When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

  Larry Wilmore

  Drinking, Different, Fountain

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

  Larry Wilmore

  Ghetto, Style, Hollywood

  Source: www.wbur.org

• When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.

  Larry Wilmore

  Kids, America, Police

  Source: www.wbur.org

• It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."

  Larry Wilmore

  Divorce, People, Tough

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

  Larry Wilmore

  Angel, Way, Guardian

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

  Larry Wilmore

  Holiday, Catholic, Guilt

  Source: www.wbur.org