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Scott Adsit Quotes

I’m a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

– Scott Adsit

‘Monty Python’ and ‘The Simpsons’ have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

– Scott Adsit

I was doing a show in L.A. called ‘Celebrity Autobiography,’ where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities’ books and hang themselves with their own rope.

– Scott Adsit

I’ve heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we’re the real nitty-gritty actors who’re in a town where being onstage doesn’t necessarily get you anything except your craft.

– Scott Adsit

I think it’s all the same animal for me. There are actors who sing, and there are actors who direct, and I also improvise. That’s one thing I do as part of my acting. I don’t really separate the two.

– Scott Adsit

I might’ve been witty, but I didn’t have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

– Scott Adsit

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I’d been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

– Scott Adsit

New York has surprised me a couple of times. I was a snob about pizza, but I’ve found one or two places that allow me to forget deep dish for a while.

– Scott Adsit

I enjoy doing physical comedy.

– Scott Adsit

Every time that you do a play or a show of any kind, really you have this family that you really build something with for a while, and then we all dissipate, but you always have that connection, that eternal kind of intimacy, you’ll always have.

– Scott Adsit

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.

– Scott Adsit

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor, financially, emotionally, egotistically. I still don’t think I’m in comedy.

– Scott Adsit

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They’re a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They’re a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.

– Scott Adsit

I got an agent when I needed one, when I had a contract negotiation for the first time. I was doing the Second City E.T.C., and I got invited to audition for the last season, it turns out, of ‘In Living Color.’

– Scott Adsit

I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.

– Scott Adsit

It’s hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there’s so many platforms now. And they’re all topics of conversation.

– Scott Adsit

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.

– Scott Adsit

Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode.

– Scott Adsit

I still feel very close to the people I wrote shows with and some of the people I toured with. I feel very close to them, like a family or like college friends who you know and who have seen you at your worst and you spend 14 hours driving a van all piled on top of each other.

– Scott Adsit

‘Baymax’ is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn’t know it, he researched and saw great potential in the relationship between a boy and a robot.

– Scott Adsit

Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on ‘Moral Orel’ and ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole,’ and they bothered us very little. They very, very seldom came to us and said ‘Change this,’ or ‘You can’t do that,’ or ‘We’d like to see this.’

– Scott Adsit

I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won’t be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are.

– Scott Adsit

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

– Scott Adsit

I’d been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

– Scott Adsit

I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

– Scott Adsit

Generally, I’ve found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.

– Scott Adsit