Marc Maron Quotes - Page 6

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• In a lot of ways, I'm seeking some sort of peace of mind for myself. I'm a fairly emotionally petty, resentful guy who has an inflated sense of himself, and I needed to take that down a notch.

  Marc Maron

  Guy, Mind, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It's great to have people come out. I do worry, though. They know me very intimately, in a way, if they listen to my show; they know a lot about me.

  Marc Maron

  People, Worry, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

  Marc Maron

  People, Provocative, Sensitive

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the fact that I wanted to talk. I was not there to plug things. I don't do a hell of a lot of research. I go on a sort of kindred-spirit bonding that preexists the interview, and just see what unfolds.

  Marc Maron

  Home, Research, Goes On

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

  Marc Maron

  Dark, People, Needs

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

  Marc Maron

  Mind Your Own Business, Ego, Soul

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• I've always been someone who likes to talk to people. When I was a little kid, I sought out freaks and weirdos that wandered the streets by where I worked in high school. I would just bring them in and talk to them.

  Marc Maron

  School, Kids, People

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• 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.

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• Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.

  Marc Maron

  Guy, Hearing, Firsts

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

  Marc Maron

  Yeah, Shows, Show Business

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• How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies - you've got to draw a line there.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Europe

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• Any comic can get on the radio show and be funny. You can get that on any morning radio show or afternoon radio show. There are plenty of people who do that. It's not a difficult format, to sit around with two or three comics and be funny.

  Marc Maron

  Morning, Two, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

  Marc Maron

  Regret, Warrior, Drug

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Europe

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