Quotes by Patton Oswalt

About Patton Oswalt:

Patton Peter Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice actor known for roles such as Spencer Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens and for voicing Remy in the film Ratatouille.
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Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on those terms rather than 'We gotta just punch it week to week, man.' Now they're like, 'What will happen if someone watches the e...

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I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

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One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

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I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

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I've been very lucky in my life in terms of people who are able to tolerate me.

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I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the book, out of the booth, and coasting on the green crest of the song, to the momentary idea that any point on Earth was mine for the visiting, that I'd lucked o...

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I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy.

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People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

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hobos' (a slang term that combines the words 'hope' and 'bowl of beans given to me for free by a woman who then initiated intercourse')

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If someone like this were to like me, to like my comedy, and to like the way I conduct myself professionally, it would mean that I suck as a person.

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Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.

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I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

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If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

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It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.

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I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

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Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

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If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

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There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

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Author Bio

  • NamePatton Oswalt
  • DescriptionStand-up comedian
  • BornJanuary 27, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor