Michael Ian Black Quotes - Page 2

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• The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.

  Michael Ian Black

  Climate, Global Business

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• The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

  Michael Ian Black

  Seven Months, Weight, Six

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• I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.

  Michael Ian Black

  Funeral, Fingers, Corpses

  Michael Ian Black (2008). “My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.

  Michael Ian Black

  Hands, Effort, Compliment

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Children, Spring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Important, Trying, Ends

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Crazy, Leather Jackets, Safety Pins

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.

  Michael Ian Black

  Dad, Husband, Ice Cream

  "The Best-Laid Plans of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.

  Michael Ian Black

  Stupid, People, Reminiscing

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice.

  Michael Ian Black

  Hate, Nice, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. They're just not getting what I'm doing, and that's fine.

  Michael Ian Black

  Criticism, Receiving, Different

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.

  Michael Ian Black

  Book, Writing, Hair

  "An Interview With Michael Ian Black: "Oh, There's Plenty Of Bad Reviews On Amazon."". Interview with Jory John, www.buzzfeed.com. March 8, 2014.

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• I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Thinking, Order

  "An Interview With Michael Ian Black: "Oh, There's Plenty Of Bad Reviews On Amazon."". Interview with Jory John, www.buzzfeed.com. March 8, 2014.

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• I probably should be thinking of better ideas on how to promote myself, but I don't really spend a lot of time doing it. I really don't know how to promote effectively.

  Michael Ian Black

  Thinking, Ideas, Should

  "An Interview With Michael Ian Black: "Oh, There's Plenty Of Bad Reviews On Amazon."". Interview with Jory John, www.buzzfeed.com. March 8, 2014.

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• Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.

  Michael Ian Black

  Games, Trying, Bizarre

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.

  Michael Ian Black

  Thinking, Architecture

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

  Michael Ian Black

  Want, Moments, Constraints

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

  Michael Ian Black

  Goal, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.

  Michael Ian Black

  Laughing, Parent, Trying

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

  Michael Ian Black

  Book, Mean, Terrible

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Book, Hard Work

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.

  Michael Ian Black

  Silly, Book, Writing

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Stupid, Book

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I'm trying to teach my children not to cry. That's the big thing. No crying. Because I think we can all agree that crying is, for the most part, for sissies. If my team loses, I'm going to cry. And I'm going to want my kids to see me crying. Not because I think sports are so important, but because I bet so much money on the game that we'll probably lose the house if my team doesn't win. That's something to cry about.

  Michael Ian Black

  Sports, Children, Team

  The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. January 25, 2008.

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• My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Sports, Player, Winning

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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