Jim Gaffigan Quotes - Page 11

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

I didn't realize how much of a Hoosier or a Midwesterner I was until I moved to New York. It's weird - growing up in Indiana, I wanted to get out, and now I completely romanticize Indiana. It just seems like there's a greater focus on family back there, which I suppose is something that kind of stayed with me.

I'd been acting and doing stand-up in New York about eight years, getting rejected, and I finally got the opportunity to do stand-up on Letterman, which holds even more importance for me. With comedians, that's definitely the pinnacle, but being from Indiana, it was a big to-do.

I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about and I guess I am a foodie. I do love food and it's kind of like I'm an eccentric observationalist guy. To make it kind of universal, I try a lot of different things. When I first started writing this, I was like, 'No food.' Then, you know, it just always goes there.

I do Sierra Mist commercials not because they pay me a lot of money or because it only takes a couple of days. I do it because I have a respect for all sodas and I like to communicate that. Some people say soda, some people say pop, where I'm from in Indiana they called it breakfast.

I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

You ever get a postcard, you get so excited you don't even read it! "Hey I got a - who cares."

I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.

Sometimes being lazy can get you in trouble. You ever not take a shower all weekend, just lounge around, then you're running late for work on Monday? There's always one person at work: "Something smells like smoke in here!" "Uh, I went to a barbeque on Friday night. Only had 48 hours to take a shower. Busy."

I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I portray in my act. But that stuff that I dislike, it's pretty sincere.

I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.

The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].

I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

I feel guilty if I'm not reading books, but I read scripts of movies or things that I know I'm committed to that I'm going to do the project. I tell myself, "I'm going to read this script like six times," and I only read it the initial time.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

Boutique hotels are great, but they get too cute. Some hotels have shoe polish. It's like, come on, this isn't 1960. No one's polishing their shoes.

I grew up in Sheepshead Bay.

I love standup comedians. I really do.

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

Faith is something that's - it's hard to articulate. It's - there's - it's not based on logic.

I love sleep. I need sleep. We all do, of course. There are those people that don't need sleep. I think they're called 'successful.