Quotes from Matt Walsh

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

I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about doing 'em.

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've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

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

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

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.

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

It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.

You can't be controlling in improv.

Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a little more forgiving.

I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

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.

Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.

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.

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.

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.

Jane Fonda is someone who impressed me.

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

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

I had a small part in a storm-chasing movie, so I did some research into storm-chaser culture.