Latest Demetri Martin Quotes from Interviews

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• I travel alone so much, and the first thought is to grab the damn phone. In airports, just look around. Nobody looks at anybody, or even out the window. It's obvious we can't live without it anymore, and as a comic on the road the phone is an essential tool. It's probably doing more good than bad for me, but it does make me sad that those of us who grew up without mobile phones, we know what we're missing.

  Demetri Martin

  Missing, Window, Comic

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world.

  Demetri Martin

  Believe, People, Empathy

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I always wanted to do a movie, because I love the movies. They give you a chance to have an intimacy with your audience that is different from stand up. With movies, you can bring the audience in with a close up, and emote in a different way.

  Demetri Martin

  Giving, Different, Chance

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I got into stand up just to do stand up because I love stand up.

  Demetri Martin

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

• My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.

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  Writing, Goal, Shooting

  Source: thelaughbutton.com

• For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.

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  Confused, Moving, People

  Source: uproxx.com

• Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

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  Ideas, Two, Sentences

  Source: uproxx.com

• If I think of a joke that's really dirty and I think it's funny I'll try it but what I've found over the years is they just don't laugh. It doesn't work coming out of my mouth so it's like they taught me 'don't do that. Don't go that way or you'll lose me.'

  Demetri Martin

  Dirty, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

• I want to get the joke to work without having to put any words or to say anything. I just want the person to look at it, and quietly in their brain, they can just put it together and say, "Cool, that one works".

  Demetri Martin

  Brain, Say Anything, Together

• I'm a producer on my show, which is great, but it's also kind of a mixed blessing because there's so much responsibility. Everything is a decision. You have to worry about the money, you have to worry about daylight, who we're going to cast and if this location doesn't work out, what are we going to do?

  Demetri Martin

  Responsibility, Blessing, Work Out

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

• I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

  Demetri Martin

  Comedian, Use, Strange

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

• I think a lot of people who watch TV don't realize when they're watch TV shows and it says 'produced by' and producer, producer... there are all these producers. What the hell does a producer do? It's funny how much you have to worry about as a producer.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Tv Shows, People

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

• I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them.

  Demetri Martin

  Men, Guitar, Different

  Source: www.isthmus.com

• When I used to go on the Wikipedia page, and I haven't gone on the page in a while, there used to be some guy who was doing my page and he would say that he was my cousin and I was going to be doing projects with him. I don't know who this person is and I don't have a cousin by this name and this person keeps saying that they're doing projects with me. It's so weird.

  Demetri Martin

  Cousin, Names, Guy

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

• Another thing that I like and that's fun for me is to try and talk and play music at the same time, because I feel like I'm learning something. There are these little challenges built into it; it's a way to push myself a little bit more as a performer.

  Demetri Martin

  Fun, Play, Challenges

  Source: www.isthmus.com

• I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny songs, I'm just adding some music to my words. So it's limited and specific, but as a performer I find it pretty enjoyable.

  Demetri Martin

  Song, Play, Roles

  Source: www.isthmus.com

• I think as a performer, it can be really great to stand on stage, especially when you have more time, but I do think about the specific people in the audience, how it's hard for them to get up and go to the bathroom, how they chose not to do other things that night and have turned off their phones and everything. So for that reason, I think it's necessary to mix it up and talk to the audience.

  Demetri Martin

  Night, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.isthmus.com

• There are jokes I know I want to tell, and there's sort of a rough order, but usually I try to change it up every show, to improvise and talk with the audience. I think when you tell jokes, if you're not careful, you can end up telling the whole list of jokes and then that's it. And that can get a little boring.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Order, Trying

  Source: www.isthmus.com

• I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.

  Demetri Martin

  Moving, Thinking, Progress

  Source: maximumfun.org

• My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.

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  Creativity, Different, Way

  Source: maximumfun.org

• It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

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  Nice, Ignorance, Curves

  Source: maximumfun.org

• I didn't play music, nobody in my family had an instrument or played music, we didn't even have any books at my house. I think about it and I'm like, I don't know how I climbed out of there.

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  Book, Thinking, Play

  Source: maximumfun.org

• In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

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  Hopeful, Retrospect, Infinite

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

• I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.

  Demetri Martin

  Play, Needs, Attention

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

• I love motor learning because it's very basic and primal. A lot of what I like to learn correlates with the opposite of what gets you laid. I can ride a unicycle and I can juggle. These are unimpressive things to know.

  Demetri Martin

  Opposites, Unicycles, Primal

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.