Latest Fred Armisen Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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

• Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!"

  Fred Armisen

  Reason, Really Weird

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• The population increasing, some of it could be in countries we haven't thought of making art in. I've never entertained making comedy in China. Like what world is that? I don't know how they would perceive art or sketch comedy. It's not a matter of intellect; it's a matter of language.

  Fred Armisen

  Country, Art, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

  Fred Armisen

  Moving, Thinking, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

  Fred Armisen

  Art, Painting, Enjoy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• I'm a fan of Talking Heads going way back.

  Fred Armisen

  Talking, Fans, Way

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

• 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.

• Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

  Fred Armisen

  Blue, Band, Kind

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

• 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.

• [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.

• "Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

  Fred Armisen

  Song, Remember, Crime

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

• Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

  Fred Armisen

  Someday, South

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

• 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.

• I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.

  Fred Armisen

  New York, Years, Two

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

• I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

  Fred Armisen

  Writing, People, Wish

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

• That smile on Stive Jobs face... My impersonation came from being a fan.

  Fred Armisen

  Jobs, Fans, Faces

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

• I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.

  Fred Armisen

  People, Details, Attention

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

• I met Steve Jobs once. In '06? He had a sense of humor.

  Fred Armisen

  Jobs, Sense Of Humor, Mets

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