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Reggie Watts
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 23
Actor
Comedian
Composer
Film Actor
Music Director
Musician
Singer
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts
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Good comedians are great philosophers.
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When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.
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When in doubt, zoom out.
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In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.
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I'm not into looking crisp. That's not how I dress or who I am.
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When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity.
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There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways.
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I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.
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In the past, I was definitely more apt to storing pain away and not worrying about it. But as I get older, it's really about figuring out how to process it, how to feel it, and then also how to use it in my art.
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Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.
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I don't have a 10-octave range. No human being has a 10-octave range.
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Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.
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I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.
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I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.
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One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.
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You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication of it. It's totally up to the listener.
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I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.
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It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.
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When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.
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I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.
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