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Brett Gelman
Brett Gelman
American Actor
Born: Oct 6, 1976
Comedy Funny Me People Think You
Related authors: Bruce Lee Clint Eastwood Kevin Hart Mr. T Orson Welles Shia LaBeouf Tom Hanks Will Rogers
Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around. Brett Gelman
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The world is pretty messed up. Brett Gelman
World Pretty Messed Messed Up Up
I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life. Brett Gelman
Life Time Loneliness Desperation My Life Long Personal Life Definitely Something Had Feel Felt Real Truly Personal Intense Where Meant
I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know? Brett Gelman
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy. Brett Gelman
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I think some people watch 'Raging Bull,' or they watch 'The Piano Teacher,' and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary. Brett Gelman
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I like being strange. I like being hyperbolic and surreal. Brett Gelman
Strange Like Surreal Being
I love Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but if I'm not in the right frame of mind to watch their work, I feel upset after watching it. Brett Gelman
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What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off. Brett Gelman
Great Theatre Money Phone Remember Somebody Way Rings Fine Some Make Great Way Off Just Them Turn
I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.' Brett Gelman
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We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times. Brett Gelman
Life Laugh How Up Times Screwed Screwed-Up Hard Hard Life
Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them. Brett Gelman
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I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint. Brett Gelman
Free Free Speech Only Viewpoint Need Speech
At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with. Brett Gelman
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Really go out of your way to hire women, people of color, homosexuals, transgendered people - go out of your way to hire them. Brett Gelman
Women People Way Out Color Go Hire Them Really Your Homosexuals
Don't be proud of me. Do something to make yourself proud of yourself. Brett Gelman
Me Yourself Something Make Proud
I really am not that hairy on my body. It's weird. Brett Gelman
Weird Hairy Am Really Body
I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that. Brett Gelman
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I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. Brett Gelman
Comedy Always Been Actor
I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions. Brett Gelman
Men White Think Liberal Back Take Look Stop Straight Themselves Really Actions Actually Need
I get to live a privileged existence. Brett Gelman
Live Existence Privileged Get
I'm not a fighter. I don't like to get beat up. Brett Gelman
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Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny. Brett Gelman
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A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction. Brett Gelman
Great Crazy Action Only Reaction Works
Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it. Brett Gelman
Life You Part Deal Got Loss Just Unfortunately
I love 'Seinfeld.' That was not alternative. You can't get more in mainstream than that. Brett Gelman
Love You More Seinfeld Mainstream Alternative Than Get
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