Quotes from Bob Odenkirk

To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when your character has a sense of self-awareness. It doesn't necessarily have to arc. It doesn't have to grow.

Humans are ridiculous. We're all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it's optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you're never going to get there, and that's OK.

The '50s sucked for a lot of people on Earth.

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

I probably do better when I'm in charge. But it's good to be able to be a part of something and be a supporter and help make a project work.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

'Monty Python' became my religion when I was 10. It led me out of the depths of darkness. I loved 'The Goodies,' too, and 'The Two Ronnies.' I watched those shows on the public television station in Chicago.

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job. There are so many decisions that law enforcement officers have to make, and the incident or situation changes so much from moment to moment and day to day. I have a lot of respect for officers and what they go through.

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

All those Bob Hope specials made me cringe when I was a kid.

I enjoy crude behaviour and language. I revel in it.

I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life.

It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.

Drama is more focused, and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there when you first read it.

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

I have a lot of opinions. I express them in 'Mr. Show' very clearly, I think. I feel like both David Cross and I felt like that show reflected each of us pretty wholly.

My experience - and it might be just the kind of comedy that I do, which is usually sketch comedy - is that there's a lot more texture and subplot in drama than in comedy.

Vince Gilligan is a wizard - and a fantastically hard-working wizard.

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

I did often wonder how relatable of a story it was when we started 'Better Call Saul.' It's such a unique character with a unique journey. But the universal drive of trying to earn respect from the people you love and not being able to do that is a common struggle for a lot of people.

There's timing in drama. You have to have a sense of rhythm. But the real thing that lends yourself to drama as opposed to comedy is a sense from the audience of whether there's more to it than you can see.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

You make you work for yourself. It's the feeling of, 'If nobody ever saw it, that'd be fine, too.'

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.