Latest Marc Maron Quotes from Interviews

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• All I can do in the context of pursuing any sort of TV thing, and all I've done in the past, is offer your life at any given point in time to whatever situation you're in.

  Marc Maron

  Past, Done, Situation

  Source: music.avclub.com

• I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.

  Marc Maron

  Real, People, Guy

  Source: music.avclub.com

• I came upon whatever I'm doing organically. I didn't study anything. I don't have any real aspirations other than to connect with somebody, and to have the conversation be genuine. That's the best that can happen. Even if it only happens for 10 minutes in an episode. But I think what people forget is that you don't have to try to get a comedian to be funny. Comedians are innately funny. That the real challenge of talking to them is to get them talking about real things and then see where they need to be funny. And let them do that on their own volition.

  Marc Maron

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: music.avclub.com

• My monologues aren't always funny. They're generally thoughtful. Sometimes at different levels of aggravation. And sometimes no aggravation. But the pressure on me is not to be joke-efficient when I'm talking on this mic. And that sets the tone.

  Marc Maron

  Thoughtful, Different, Sometimes

  Source: music.avclub.com

• In my life, I didn't get into comedy to be - I had no business model. All I wanted to do was, basically, finish becoming myself. And you stand in front of people and be seen and heard in this format. I thought it was the most practical format for me to express whatever it was I was going through. Whatever my ideas were in my evolving philosophy about life. I obviously don't sell out theaters. I'm not a household name. I'm not incredibly consistent in terms of doing the same act over and over again, and I'm definitely working out a lot of my existential issues onstage.

  Marc Maron

  Philosophy, People, Work Out

  Source: music.avclub.com

• I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any sense of normalcy in their lives, any sense of security, and most of them are oddly unique individuals. Let's have a broader conversation with people that have spent their last however-many-years thinking about their lives. I mean, they're philosophers. They're poets. They're people who are on the outside looking in at the world through a different set of values.

  Marc Maron

  Mean, Commitment, Sacrifice

  Source: music.avclub.com

• One thing I'm grateful for, and also surprised and excited about, is that I have a place in the community of comics now. In a real way. And I honor that. A lot of what I do is in support of the community and bringing new talent - talking to people that people don't know. And defining us as a community.

  Marc Maron

  Real, Grateful, People

  Source: music.avclub.com

• Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing it out over time on stage and in front of people until it becomes a full bit.

  Marc Maron

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.

  Marc Maron

  Years, Important, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.

  Marc Maron

  Writing, Opportunity, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

  Marc Maron

  Beautiful, Talking, People

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the guitar place on St. Mark's and talk to that dude for a while, then I'd go to the bookstore and talk to that dude for a little while. I had a guy over at the record store, and I'd talk to him for a while. It kept me connected to life.

  Marc Maron

  Notebook, New York, Guitar

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• I'm just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I'm not writing or playing guitar or on the microphone or out on the road, I'm cleaning pots and pans or freaking out about some plumbing issue or tweeting.

  Marc Maron

  Writing, Guitar, Issues

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.

  Marc Maron

  Matter, Bother, Wells

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• I find that if I don't do interviews, I get a little squirrely. I think that when you engage with someone else, or when you engage in something you're passionate about, you're sort of out of your own head.

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Passionate, Littles

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

  Marc Maron

  Arguing, Sometimes, Controversy

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Ideas, Bullshit

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.

  Marc Maron

  People, Laughing, Stories

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• I'm happy, certainly, given the times we're living in, to be doing OK, and to not be worrying about money, and to be producing something I enjoy.

  Marc Maron

  Worry, Worrying About Money, Given

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

  Marc Maron

  Effort, Brain, Contentment

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

  Marc Maron

  Anxiety, Different, Panic

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.

  Marc Maron

  Memories, Emotional, Passing Moments

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there.

  Marc Maron

  Campus, Mutual Respect, Mutual

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.

  Marc Maron

  Running, New York, Boston

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

• When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.

  Marc Maron

  Kids, Class, Way

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.