Zach Galifianakis Quotes:- Zach Galifianakis (born October 1, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and writer who came to prominence with his Comedy Central Presents special in 2001 and presented his own show called Late World with Zach on VH1 the following year.
Inspirational Zach Galifianakis Quotes
I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.
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There’s more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I’m not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it’s a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I’ll get burned out, then I’ll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I’d like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I’ve written. That’s what I’m trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
Zach Galifianakis
I wish I could sit back and say, ‘Oh, I’m gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it’s called. But you just take what’s given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That’s my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
Zach Galifianakis
People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother’s basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I’ve gotten work is because I’ve somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I’ve been asked to auditions.
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Hilarious Zach Galifianakis Quotes
It’s not good for comedy to be like, ‘Thanks for liking me.’ Being popular is poison.
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I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.
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Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There’s just too much money.
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I understand Tea Partyers’ anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can’t be part of that.
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When a role seems fun it’s easy to play. It kind of comes organically.
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I haven’t been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in ’92.
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria – not necessarily by choice – but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren’t there.
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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they’re done towards yourself.
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I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I’m stunning. But I’ve gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I’ve put on, the more success I’ve had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.
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Famous Quotes by Zach Galifianakis
Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time and taste in comedy change. The guy in ‘The Hangover’ was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they’re like, ‘What else do you have for us, monkey?’
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
Zach Galifianakis
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It’ll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I try to write three jokes every day. I don’t sit down and write them, it’s just things that pop into my head. Then I’ll go watch it fail onstage that night.
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My dad doesn’t get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn’t understand them. He’s just laughing because the people around him are laughing.
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I like dark comedies. That’s why I like the Wayans Brothers.
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I’ve been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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Top Zach Galifianakis Quotes and Sayings
You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern because everybody’s so tired.
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I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn’t seem too preachy because you’re also making people laugh, so it’s really kind of a good tool for messaging.
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As a comic, it’s anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I’m very trepidatious about it.
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Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I’m not that kind of person.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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There was a long time where I was an ‘artist’ in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that’s totally wiped out; I don’t think it really exists anymore.
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