A biography for Brendan Hunthasn’t been written yet.
“I learned early on that it's important to respect every idea as if it could potentially be worth something later.”
“If we get out there trying to be inspirational, then we probably won't be.”
“I'd be somewhat disinclined to be responsible for the fortunes of a franchise that uses a sitcom as their philosophical north star.”
“It's one thing to be dumb or ignorant or be in over your head. But if you can be the person who knows how much he does not know and be curious about the things you do not know, then that automatically lends itself to being a big-hearted, welcoming person who wants to know about every single person you meet.”
“Barry Jenkins was pretty cool.”
“I all but literally had a conversation with myself of like, 'You have to stop thinking about 'Ted Lasso.' It's not healthy to think about 'Ted Lasso,' it's not going to happen, it's just not going to happen, man.'”
“One thing my old improv teacher taught me is when you're not in the improv scene and you're standing back watching your partners, you ask, 'What does the scene need?'”
“Sometimes you know a friend so well, you take for granted, 'Oh, they're just like this, and they're going to be okay.'”
“I believe my last name Hunt is an anglicized version of O'Fianna.”
“The show was called 'Jean-Paul Sartre and Ringo.' Bonnie Hunt was in the cast and she made the biggest impression on me. That show just blew me away. I couldn't believe these people were doing this. So that had a big effect on me.”
“I think it used to be an accepted leadership tactic to essentially abuse people.”
“One thing that being curious and not judgmental does is it has an ancillary effect of reminding you that a lot of anger isn't really worth it.”
“One thing you learn from comedy writing, or sketch writing, is just to be vicious about cutting. Do not get sentimental about cutting. That bit doesn't work, get it out.”
“I think it's not controversial to say there's a lot of us who need to be reminded that we're wasting our time and making things worse for ourselves if we're carrying anger around with us all the time.”
“No one paid me to bite their butt - we're not going that far. But I've gone to some places, I've seen some things.”
“The fact that Americans do have this ingrained optimism, even against a lot of actual information about how things work, is not that bad of a quality. You know, I think it is one of our better qualities.”
“The more Arsenal games I see, the more it chips away at my impostor syndrome, a common plague among Arsenal fans with non-U.K. origins.”
“We knew that Ted Lasso was at least an optimistic guy and an enthusiastic guy, and the show was going to emanate from his energy.”
“Output is more important than ideas.”
“And in Amsterdam, you learn that a night out dancing is good for the soul.”