Danny McBride Quotes

• You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I’ve been doing are based on different people I might’ve had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

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• When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts – he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he’s constantly trying to give me weird looks.

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  Tags in Give, Kind, School

• There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

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• The whole experience of ‘Eastbound’ has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

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• The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

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  Tags in Give, Need, Someone

• The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.

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  Tags in Friends, Pretty, Same

• So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

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• On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

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• My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I’d worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I’ve never been there since.

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• Jody Hill, who I created ‘Eastbound And Down’ and ‘Fist Foot Way’ with, was my best man at my wedding.

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  Tags in Best, Down

• It’s awesome to see something like ‘Inception’, which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that’s rare.

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  Tags in Actually, Amazing, Awesome

• It’s a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

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• It hasn’t been anything that’s been overwhelming or anything, but I do get recognized here and there.

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  Tags in Anything, Here, Recognized

• In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they’re cool, they get respect.

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  Tags in Cool, School

• In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn’t want to show their legs.

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  Tags in Girl, Little, Pretty

• If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.

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  Tags in Character, Enough

• I’ve always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won’t let me rock that hairstyle.

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  Tags in Hair, Rock, Wife

• I’ll still try to nail acting jobs, but with ‘Eastbound,’ creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

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  Tags in Day, End, Still

• I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I’m interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for – trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn’t normally appeal to.

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  Tags in School, Trying, Writing

• I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Appreciate, Choose

Danny McBride (33)

Birth:	29th December, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Daniel Richard "Danny" McBride was born in Statesboro, Georgia. He is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and stand-up comedian. He starred in comedy films, such as Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, Your Highness and This Is The End. He wrote and starred in the HBO original comedy series Eastbound & Down, as Kenny Powers, a washed up former major league baseball pitcher with anger management issues. In 2014, McBride and Jody Hill created and began preparing the comedy series Vice Principals for HBO.

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