Quotes from Brendan Hunt

I learned this lesson too late, frankly: Do not judge it while you're doing it. Do not go back and fix things that are 20 pages ago when you're already 20 pages past that.

I believe my last name Hunt is an anglicized version of O'Fianna.

The show was called 'Jean-Paul Sartre and Ringo.' Bonnie Hunt was in the cast and she made the biggest impression on me. That show just blew me away. I couldn't believe these people were doing this. So that had a big effect on me.

In 2013, I got a phone call out of the blue from Jason Sudeikis. He said there was an NBC commercial that they wanted him to do, and if we did it, we'd get to go to London for three days. I thought, 'Wow, three days in London. Unbelievable!'

No matter what kind of tough times you're going through, if you can get a night out with friends and really just lose yourself in the music, that's just straight-up good for you, you know?

The true answer is I like being involved in a project where I can contribute on both sides of the camera. The more immersed I can be, the better.

I have Irish on both sides of my family.

I've now spent almost a full year of the last two years of my life in London, and I still have to think really, really hard before I cross the street. There are too many instincts fighting each other, and I don't want to die.

And when you start the season writing process, you just pitch a bunch of different ideas. In the end, you probably have 20 ideas that you like.

My mom's family was 100 percent Irish, in the American way of being Irish, and then my dad was half Irish.

I guess I believe that whatever crazy things you're getting up to outside of work doesn't inherently mean that you're some kind of jerk or anything. Everyone's going to live differently.

I like Jimmy Stewart!

Gucci! Paul Smith! I love it! You discover it's not just names; that stuff looks pretty good once it's on you.

Jason Sudeikis said an SNL go-to for naming people was: regular first name, noun last name. My noun was Beard.

My dad had just come back from Vietnam, and I think he had PTSD that he never treated, in that sort of macho-denial way. So they were divorced by the time I was 2, and my mom tried to raise me and my younger sister by herself. That proved very taxing, so there was a lot of moving around.

Soccer. I was a late convert. I didn't get into it until I lived in Amsterdam for a while in my 20s, and now I'm a zealot. It's the best.

Any time I'm at a bar, I'm hoping somebody asks me about the offside rule. Give me four bottles of beer and one bottle of ketchup and I'm going to explain this to you so well because I love explaining soccer.

Soccer is the most improvisational sport. There are no set plays. And in soccer, as in improv, you are trying to find the flow.

Thierry Henry, I mean, he's someone who I became a fan of when I was getting into soccer while living in Amsterdam.

No one paid me to bite their butt - we're not going that far. But I've gone to some places, I've seen some things.

If we get out there trying to be inspirational, then we probably won't be.

When the mask comes down when the plane's in turbulence, you've gotta put it on yourself first or you're not going to be able to do much good, even for the kid screaming next to you.

I don't necessarily believe in moderation, but I do believe in the dangers of excess, and that's with some good things too.

My mom and dad were very young when they had me.