Fred Armisen Quotes

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• Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

  Fred Armisen

  Inspirational, Graduation, People

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• Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

  Fred Armisen

  Funny Graduation, Hammers, Guarantees

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• I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

  Fred Armisen

  Cities, People, Personality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Portland is where young people go to retire.

  Fred Armisen

  People, Portland, Young

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• There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

  Fred Armisen

  Art, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.

  Fred Armisen

  Thinking, Interesting, Guy

  "Fred Armisen Welcomes You Back To 'Portlandia'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.yahoo.com. January 2, 2013.

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• I loved our music discussion. I live for discussions like that. It's my favorite thing because it means that people care about music, and actually have an opinion. I feel like it's dying. Everyone is just really like, they take a step back, but to actually have conviction about what's good and bad: love it.

  Fred Armisen

  Mean, People, Dying

  "Bill Hader and Fred Armisen on making comedy cinematic with Documentary Now!". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. August 4, 2016.

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• I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

  Fred Armisen

  Years, Two, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in London. And he didn't overuse synthesizers. He used them just enough. It's such a cool sound.

  Fred Armisen

  Roots, Sound, Band

  "Bill Hader and Fred Armisen on making comedy cinematic with Documentary Now!". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, avclub.com. August 4, 2016.

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• The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

  Fred Armisen

  Country, Hate, Rivalry

  "Fred Armisen On SNL’s ‘The Californians’ Sketch: ‘I’m So Glad Cities Have Personalities’" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19,2012.

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• My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.

  Fred Armisen

  Mom, Father, Germany

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January, 2012.

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• I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band and we worked really hard and did not get very far. I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky. That's never lost in me, that I went through Saturday Night Live.

  Fred Armisen

  Night, Guy, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.

  Fred Armisen

  Writing, Genius, Bows

  "Bill Hader and Fred Armisen on making comedy cinematic with Documentary Now!". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. August 4, 2016.

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• If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it stays with you and when we are all 90, we're going to look back at those songs, and it's going to be emotional. And when someone plays it, and you know it, and you're going to go, "I know that song and I love it."

  Fred Armisen

  Song, Emotional, Play

  "Bill Hader and Fred Armisen on making comedy cinematic with Documentary Now!". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. August 4, 2016.

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• There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have coffee there. Also, the way that it's a little overcast sometimes. Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

  Fred Armisen

  Coffee, Cities, Portland

  "'Portlandia' Duo Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Discuss the Secrets to the Cult Show's Success". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. February 27, 2014.

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• I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

  Fred Armisen

  Missing, Soldier, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people. I wanted attention.

  Fred Armisen

  People, Attention, Judgment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group." I want to write down this idea of a group of artists who treat it like a band. Like, "Who made the painting?" "All four of us did."

  Fred Armisen

  Writing, Artist, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was in a band and it wasn't working out the way I wanted. Then somehow, little by little, I started doing a couple comedy things. All of a sudden I was being asked to do more and more comedy things. There was this message from the world saying, "Maybe you should go this direction."

  Fred Armisen

  Couple, Work Out, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's already years ago now, but there's that South Korean music artist Psy, who had that hit song and it was a hit song here. I'm like, "Wait a minute. There's a chance. There's a way we can have language not be such an important part of comedy."

  Fred Armisen

  Song, Artist, Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some rules are good. For example, off the top of my head, let's say a stand-up comedian or a talk show host wearing a nice suit - as a ponderer, I grew up like, "Why don't they just go up there in their army jacket? They're fine!" Then little by little, you think, "You know, it's kind of nice to look nice, like you made the effort." Then you're back at rule one; that was the original rule.

  Fred Armisen

  Nice, Army, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].

  Fred Armisen

  Divorce, Two, Lucky

  "Fred Armisen: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2011.

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• I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.

  Fred Armisen

  Relax, Stuff, Not Happy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

  Fred Armisen

  Beautiful, Mets, Journalist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.

  Fred Armisen

  Crazy, Crazy Person, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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