Quotes from Sam Richardson

If you want to land a punchline for how bad something is, you say 'Detroit,' even, like, in conversation. 'Oh, well, things could be worse. You could be in Detroit.' It makes me so mad.

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

When you grow up with siblings, you can be like, 'Isn't this weird? Isn't this funny? Do we agree on this, or do we disagree?' You have some point of reference, some touchstone. When you grow up an only child, everything is internalized.

I was a shy kid up until the sixth grade, and then I started to let loose.

I want to play my Joker. Not the Joker, but my Joker. Somebody who can have fun doing wrong.

Being on 'Veep,' it's so much fun, and I get to put so much creative input in there, but at the end of the day, what they say, I do.

Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you'd be fine.

Performing in Detroit or performing in Chicago, you're on your own turf, but when you tour a show, the audiences change. You're in a completely different space; sensibilities change. I think I learned a lot from doing that - how written material works in different places, learning to have confidence, learning the idea of how to be adaptable.

I try to tweet, but I still haven't gotten into the rhythm as much as some people who have, like, 20,000 tweets. There are some great comedians on there, so you get some pretty funny hot takes and bits.

The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.

I feel that, a lot of times, Detroiters have an aversion to seeing nice new things come into Detroit. But I'm like, 'What's wrong with that? Everywhere else has it! Why can't we?'

The movie I've seen the most is 'Ghostbusters' or 'Ghostbusters II.' I used to watch those movies nonstop.

Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.

When you consume a half hour or an hour of television, you can talk about what happened as opposed to consuming ten hours of content, and then you don't remember everything you want to talk about.

I've worked on shows where the set was very morose and boring, kind of like nobody wanted to be there. I felt that affects the work.

As far as magazines, I'll read 'GQ' to see where men's fashion is, but that's really kind of it.