Quotes from Judah Friedlander

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.

I watch a movie or a T.V. show or whatever; if it's good, I like to watch it more than once, and it's always fun to catch something you didn't see initially.

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

I'd like to work with John Waters. I grew up in Maryland, so I'm a huge Waters fan.

I never really planned on doing a television series.

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.

Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.

I never wanted to be famous.

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.

I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.

I need to get a wife. But it's hard, you know, it's hard to find a girl you can trust. Some of these girls, they want to go out with you so they can blog about you.

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.

It wasn't like I just woke up and said, 'Here's my gimmick; I'll wear a hat and put something weird on it.'

I had one girl send me an e-mail saying she wants to go out with me, but it's like a two-pronged deal because she wants to blog the date. And I'm like, No! I don't want to be on a reality show.

I like hanging out at non-showbizzy places.

As the World Champion, every day is pretty much like Valentine's Day for me - as far as hooking up with the ladies.