Jason Segel Quotes

• You guys own the Muppets, and you’re just kind of sitting on ’em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.

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• There were some super-lean years, yeah. I’m six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn’t play the lawyer, but I couldn’t play the high school kid anymore.

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• Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

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• If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

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• I’ve just grown a little disappointed with ‘Muppets in the Old West’, ‘Muppets Under Water’ and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80’s, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That’s what I’m trying to bring back.

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• I’ve been 6’4” since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.

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• I’m better looking in person.

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• I was making out with this woman, and my shirt was off, and she leaned over and, in a really cute, girly voice, went, ‘Hey, fatty!’

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• I sold my first script when I was 21 – this kids’ adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I’m pretty psyched about it.

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• I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. ‘You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.

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• I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don’t know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.

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• Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script – like, ‘Trac is grizzly!’ ‘This is unbearable!’ It’s the greatest.

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Jason Segel (12)

Birth:	18th January, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Screenwriter

About

Jason Jordan Segel was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American actor, screenwriter and author, best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. His role in several films include: Can't Hardly Wait, Slackers, LolliLove, Forgetting Sarah Marshall(also writer), Bad Teacher, The Muppets(also writer), The Five-Year Engagement(also writer), This Is 40, Sex Tape(also writer), and The Discovery. His role in television include: Freaks and Geeks(TV series) and Undeclared(Sitcom). He has written several books(with Kirsten Miller) include:  Nightmares!, Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic(novel), Nightmares! The Lost Lullabye, The Lost Lullaby, and Otherworld.

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