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My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.
Michael Ian Black
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Michael Ian Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.
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Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.
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The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.
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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.
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Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.
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As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.
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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.
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Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.
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The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.
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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.
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The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.
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I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.
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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?
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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
Super excited about things I'm going to do never excited about things I'm actually doing.
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If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.
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I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.
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I hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse.
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Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.
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I take my coffee like I take my women... strong... black... and proud.
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