Matt Walsh

“I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.”

“Bossy means “given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive.” ...Could it be that girls are called bossy when they’re… well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason?”

“Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.”

“I can speak a little German, a little Spanish, and I was a psych major, so I'm good at listening to people's problems.”

“Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.”

“There's something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that's going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it's climate change or crowd sizes. Every day, there's another blatant lie. I think there's comedy in there somewhere.”

“Authentic discovery, when captured on camera, I think, is tremendous acting.”

“Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They're like circus folk. They're freaks themselves.”

“You can't be controlling in improv.”

“I love 'A Mighty Wind.' Even though it's not a funny movie, I think that's kind of beautiful and sweet.”

“L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.”

“I'm a young boy at heart, I guess.”

“When I first started doing press interviews, the big question was, 'Do you think women are funny?' People would ask you that in an interview. In an interview! It's like, of course they are.”

“The thing about 'Veep' is that you never really know where the camera's going to be. So you're not really just saying your line and then just watching it: you're trying to act the whole time just in case the camera is watching you.”

“I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.”

“I've seen several funnel clouds as a kid, too. They're cool if, you know, they're, like, two towns over, but they're scary as hell if you know they're coming your way.”