Scott Adsit Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Scott Adsit:
I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.
~Scott Adsit
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I enjoy doing physical comedy.
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Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.
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What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.
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New York has surprised me a couple of times. I was a snob about pizza, but I've found one or two places that allow me to forget deep dish for a while.
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I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.
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I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.
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Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode.
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I still feel very close to the people I wrote shows with and some of the people I toured with. I feel very close to them, like a family or like college friends who you know and who have seen you at your worst and you spend 14 hours driving a van all piled on top of each other.
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I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.
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Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.
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I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.
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I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with their own rope.
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I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft.
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I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
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'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.
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