Michael Ian Black Quotes

• Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.

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• Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.

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• Whenever anyone asks me if I’m from a TV show, I say yes – no matter whether I’ve ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.

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• Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

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• There’s this misconception that comedy and music go together. They don’t. Comedians can’t compete with rock stars; they’re just not on the same level. Rock stars will always be cooler. They will always get more girls.

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• There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that’s what a parent’s tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

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• The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That’s not hard to do even when you’re juggling insane careers and three kids.

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• Separation is the worst. There’s no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.

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• People recognize me, but they don’t know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company.

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• Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

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• My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.

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• My first real break was when my college sketch troupe, The State, was asked to contribute pieces for a new MTV show called ‘You Wrote It, You Watch It.’

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• Most of the time, you don’t win anything on reality shows. You’re booted off, or maybe you win $50,000, or $100,000, which isn’t really life-changing. I don’t know that it’s worth it.

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• My absolute favorite growing up was ‘Super Friends.’ The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

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• Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

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• Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

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• Let me tell you, the life of a C list celebrity is pretty sweet. If I want to go to an Applebee’s, all I have to do is, literally, walk in the door. They seat me as soon as the other people ahead of me are seated.

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• I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice. I mean, it’s a pretty evenhanded loathing among a certain amount of the critical population, which used to be about 80 percent. So now I’ve gotten to the point where I just don’t worry about it that much. It used to be very upsetting, now it’s only mildly upsetting.

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• I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it’s sort of mindless, or they’re receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.

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• I loved ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’ Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

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Michael Ian Black (34)

Birth:	12th August, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Writer

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