Latest Ira Glass Quotes from Interviews

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• The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

  Ira Glass

  People, Culture, Miserable

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.

  Ira Glass

  Art, Book, Challenges

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put the baby into some lady's stomach, right? And, at some point, I learned how it really happened, and really that was the beginning of the end of my belief in God. Up until that point, it had always been a really weird act of intervention on God's part.

  Ira Glass

  Baby, Littles, Way

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, August 02, 2016.

• I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.

  Ira Glass

  Kids, Stereotype, Imagine

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

• I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.

  Ira Glass

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

• I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

  Ira Glass

  Sports, Thinking, Pleasure

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 02, 2016.

• Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.

  Ira Glass

  Shooting, Looking Good, Brad

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2016.

• I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.

  Ira Glass

  Thinking, Brad, Mets

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

• Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.

  Ira Glass

  Fun, Games, Brad

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 02, 2016.

• I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay."

  Ira Glass

  Gay, Glasses, Ira

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

• I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

  Ira Glass

  Thinking, Stolen

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 02, 2016.

• I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.

  Ira Glass

  Want, Feels, Havens

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

• The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

  Ira Glass

  Two, Want, Film

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 02, 2016.

• I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.

  Ira Glass

  Thinking, Giants, Chihuahua

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

• Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.

  Ira Glass

  Honestly

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 02, 2016.

• For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

  Ira Glass

  People, Radio, Starting

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

• I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.

  Ira Glass

  Running, Thinking, Wish

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.