Quotes from Tim Heidecker

I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm that interested in, in the comedy world. Everyone seems to be trying to play it safe.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

The idea of trust-fund guys who live in Brooklyn in their 30s is really interesting to me. There's a time and a place where that kind of bohemian lifestyle is appropriate, soon after college, in your 20s. But there are people still living that many years later; they haven't evolved to the next phase.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.

Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

The scariest thing about screening a comedy... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.

It's never fun to read death threats.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.