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Comedy is tragedy plus timing.

Bob Odenkirk

When you envy actors, only envy them for their good roles. Keep in mind they have to do a lot of roles to make a living, and not all of them are good.
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Envy Good Jobs Living Stupid
I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.
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Everybody Persona Thinking
We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.
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Constraints Feels Past
And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.
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Good Hearted Selfishness Sympathetic
When they’re doing a stupid role in a bad production, it’s kind of a dumb thing to do when you’re an adult. When you’re doing a great role that’s well-written, it’s an enviable job.
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Enviable Job Production Role
I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it’s become very corporate, the independent scene.
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Independent Thinking Years
It’s fun to discover things. I wouldn’t want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.
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Everything Fun Obviously Want
The world needs less destruction.
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Destruction Needs World
I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
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Interesting Television Thinking
We’re all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you’re comedic or not.
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Honesty People Real
I don’t think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.
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Own Sketch Thinking
Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.
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Important Real Skills
Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
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Comedy Timing Tragedy
If you’re committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.
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Enough Kevin Stories
I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.
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Destructive More Needs Objective
It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
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Independent Nice Taken

Comedy is tragedy plus timing.

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