Quotes from Judd Apatow

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

Cocky nerds. My wife and I always talk about it. It's people who think they don't think ill of themselves --they actually think that there's something special about themselves but no one's noticed it... And that's what makes them interesting. They have an air of superiority as they're getting pummeled.

a weird movie.

The work can really bring out the worst side of you when you feel like someone else is ruining it. I can completely lose my mind.

Michael O'Donoghue didn't suffer fools. He didn't need to. Judd

There's that moment early in your career when you will work harder than any other point afterward.

I'm always assuming things are going to crash and I'm trying to figure out what could go wrong before it happens. It's helpful for work. But it's a terrible way to live your life.

The only true stereotype about Black women is how Black women will say, "Well, no one's doing it, so I guess I'll do it." Once you put that lady in your office, no matter what your office is, if you treat her right, she is going to do your job and her job. And I think people are slowly realizing that.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

Working with an audience is like being an animal trainer. If you go in the ring and you're a little bit nervous and your hand's shaking, the animals sense it and they rip you apart. Same thing with audiences.

Louis: You have to be willing to say, "Let's not do this show. Let's not do it.

Diaries of Garry Shandling

Four completely sober men on the set of Pineapple Express.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies.

I think we all have a love/hate relationship with the media.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.