Danny McBride

“I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.”

“It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.”

“And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.”

“The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.”

“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.”

“But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.”

“And I'm always surprised when people have seen 'The Foot Fist Way', so when people bring that up, I'm always surprised that's reached other people besides my immediate friends.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.”

“I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.”