Quotes from James Murray

In my live show, it will feel like I'm making up everything as I go, and a lot of it I do. I riff with the audience and see what happens.

Not to name drop, but I'm kind of best friends with Yanni. We barbecue together, we've walked on beaches together - it's kind of a thing.

Dry-cleaners suck.

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima.(Nothing is better than a most diligent life.)

The show is just my best friends and I being ourselves. We don't play a persona.

We've always dreamt of doing TV and movies and we shot two pilots for TV networks, but neither one went to series.

I would watch 'Punk'd' or 'Candid Camera' - I love the shows, but also I would feel bad about the people that were getting pranked.

I want to go on record as saying that I am chasing cool.

There was literally nothing to do in high school other than prank each other.

I think that's where you get your inspiration from. Your favorite things that you love.

If you can believe it, I wrote all of 'Awakened' around one chapter. That was the idea for the whole thing, so I figured out what happened that led to this and then where it went from there.

You know, comedy and horror are flip sides of the same coin.

We wanted to create a show that put our friendship on display.

I love Orlando. I'm in Orlando six times a year. I love the theme parks.

You gotta know the details to paint a really good picture in the reader's mind on what's happening.

We get letters a few times a year from people that write papers on the show. You know, like, 'Oh, my psychology or my cultural studies class - this is my term paper.' Somebody wrote it as their thesis, about the social experiment of the show, because the show is a reflection of what's going on in culture.

When you screw with somebody's sense of ownership of something, that's when they react.

The idea for 'Awakened' came to me one night on my long commute home to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The subway station was empty and eerily quite, and I could barely see into the darkened tunnel ahead. The further I peered, the darker the tunnel became. I wondered what could live in there... or under there.

I love thrillers.

The best way to describe our live show is that it's like hanging out with your best friends from TV for a night.

Hidden camera shows were coming back around 2010, so we got together one night and we said, 'What's our version of a hidden camera show?'

Our fans worldwide have become our friends as well.

Impractical Jokers' is all about friendship.