A biography for Brad Garretthasn’t been written yet.
“I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.”
“I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.”
“I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.”
“But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.”
“In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.”
“I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.”
“I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.”
“I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.”
“You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.”
“I love performing, and it's important that I do it at my own club, absolutely. It's good for me. It's good for business.”
“My whole life, I've been telling jokes.”
“You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.”
“The night I won the Emmy, I probably cried for three hours on and off.”
“It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.”
“I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.”
“I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.”
“I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.”
“I'm not big on game shows.”
“I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.”
“Humor is healing.”