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When you’re 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you’re 70 you can’t play a 20-year-old.

Bob Odenkirk

We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.
BOB ODENKIRK

Constraints Feels Past
It’s fun to discover things. I wouldn’t want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.
BOB ODENKIRK

Everything Fun Obviously Want
It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
BOB ODENKIRK

Independent Nice Taken
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Enviable Job Production Role
The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, “Yeah, I agree.”
BOB ODENKIRK

Reviews Worst Yeah
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.
BOB ODENKIRK

Enough Kevin Stories
Comedy can be destructive, and still very, very funny. But if I can do something that is fun to watch and critical of the world but not wantonly destructive.
BOB ODENKIRK

Fun Ideas Watches
I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.
BOB ODENKIRK

Everybody Persona Thinking
Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
BOB ODENKIRK

Comedy Timing Tragedy
We’re all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you’re comedic or not.
BOB ODENKIRK

Honesty People Real
You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right – and I haven’t always done it right – you should be shaping the material all the time.
BOB ODENKIRK

Actors Done Use
The world needs less destruction.
BOB ODENKIRK

Destruction Needs World
My daughter got me a ‘World’s Best Dad’ mug. So we know she’s sarcastic.
BOB ODENKIRK

Dad Daughter Sarcastic
I’m about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.
BOB ODENKIRK

Hands Independent Real
In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.
BOB ODENKIRK

Clever Ideas Sticks
I pretty much read reviews and comments only looking for the negative. Literally, when I read positive comments, it’s like a zero. I think the issue is if you agree with it or not.
BOB ODENKIRK

Issue Thinking Zero

When you’re 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you’re 70 you can’t play a 20-year-old.

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