Latest Zach Galifianakis Quotes from Interviews

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• I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people are desperate, and a lot of people are clueless, including me. It's hard to try to figure it out. I've never told you, but I have head shots that if you saw them... they're so terrible! It's so embarrassing.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Clueless, Thinking, California

• I find anger to be funny. I find people that are so wrapped up in their own personalities to be funny, and lost. Like myself in real life.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Real, People, Personality

  "Zach Galifianakis: 'I have no idea' if FX comedy 'Baskets' will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

• I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Interesting, Looks, Woody

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

• I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Guy, Watches, Needs

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

• 'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Interesting, Looks, Baskets

  Source: www.hitfix.com

• I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Sadness, Thinking, Comedy

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

• You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Focus, Groups

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

• I don't want to do an edgy show, I didn't want bad language. I think edginess is the new hackiness.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Thinking, Edginess, Want

  Source: www.hitfix.com

• Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Fun, Elements, Done

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

• I know my face is turning red. I don't want you to interpret it as being embarrassed. It's rage. The color of my face is rage.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Color, Want, Red

  "DUE DATE Press Conference with Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Director Todd Phillips and Michelle Monaghan (With Audio)". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 2, 2010.

• When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Hey, May, Kind

  "DUE DATE Press Conference with Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Director Todd Phillips and Michelle Monaghan (With Audio)". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 2, 2010.

• I love playing a curmudgeon. I just love playing a sour guy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Guy, Sour, Curmudgeon

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks PUSS IN BOOTS, DOG FIGHT, THE HANGOVER 3, BORED TO DEATH and BETWEEN TWO FERNS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 25, 2011.

• The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

  Zach Galifianakis

  People, Laughing, Cameras

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks Working with Will Ferrell, His “Non-Sexual” Character, and Disliking Children on the Set of THE CAMPAIGN". collider.com. July 25, 2012.

• I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Thinking, Trying, Tools

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks Working with Will Ferrell, His “Non-Sexual” Character, and Disliking Children on the Set of THE CAMPAIGN". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 25, 2012.

• I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge .

  Zach Galifianakis

  Character, Littles, Fragile

• You save 15 more minutes of sleep if you are a man and you don't have to shave.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Sleep, Men, Minutes

• I don't really have a pattern yet. I don't know if I'll develop one. As far as comedic integrity, I don't have integrity in general, comedic or otherwise.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Integrity, Patterns, Comedic

• My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Real, Character, Bunch

  "Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis Interview, Due Date". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November, 2010.

• My comfort zone is press conferences.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Comfort, Conferences, Zone

  "DUE DATE Press Conference with Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Director Todd Phillips and Michelle Monaghan". collider.com. November 2, 2010.

• I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Cynical, Important, Culture

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 07, 2007.

• I just could just shave my beard, and nobody would recognize me. Although I look like Jodie Foster.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Looks, Beard

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". INterview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

• I'm proud of The Hangover, but to be in movies like this, which are really the only places I can get work, it's really quite the opposite of what I am. I like sensitive art-house movies. I'm not even much of a partier. I mean, I'll drink myself into oblivion alone in my car.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Art, Hangover, Mean

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

• I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the romanticism about being on the road is you get to meet a lot of - my mom once told me, "You've probably got a woman at every port." Like I'm a pirate. Obviously she doesn't know her son that well.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Mom, Lonely, Son

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

• I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Real, Frustration, Thinking

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

• I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Self, Kind, Advantage

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.