Michael Ian Black Quotes - Page 3

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• Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Execution, Shows

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

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• Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.

  Michael Ian Black

  Careers, Next, Looking Forward

  "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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• I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Book, Deals

  "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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• My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, 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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• There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.

  Michael Ian Black

  Interest, Knows

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

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• Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

  Michael Ian Black

  Creating, Done, Want

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

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• It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Character, Down And

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

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• The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.

  Michael Ian Black

  Writing, Character, Littles

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

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• I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"

  Michael Ian Black

  Actors, Next, Horrible

  "Q+A: The State of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 15, 2012.

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• It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

  Michael Ian Black

  Matter, Kind, Chasing

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

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• Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.

  Michael Ian Black

  Country, Sex, Thinking

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

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• I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.

  Michael Ian Black

  Thinking, Trying, Comedy

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

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• I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.

  Michael Ian Black

  Men, Guy, Understood

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

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• All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

  Michael Ian Black

  Girl, Mom, Men

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

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• If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

  Michael Ian Black

  Teacher, Teaching, Degrees

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

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• I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.

  Michael Ian Black

  Regret, Believe, Opportunity

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

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• My fear is if I expose myself, not so much that I'll be hurt, but that the reaction will be "Is that all there is? Is that the entirety of you? Because it's boring."

  Michael Ian Black

  Hurt, Boring, Reactions

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

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• That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.

  Michael Ian Black

  Enough, Don't Trust, Stills

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

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• I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

  Michael Ian Black

  Thinking, Levels, Narcissism

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

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• As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.

  Michael Ian Black

  Years, Tv Shows, Four

  "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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