Words matter. These are the best John Mulaney Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I’ve always enjoyed it. There’s just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.
I never knew you were supposed to push off of your feet when you walked. And I tried it, and I walked much faster.
Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that’s awesome.
My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don’t think we had a family dinner where one didn’t come up.
You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.
It’s important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don’t think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.
I like to pace onstage.
I’ve seen most of the major, important shows, but I watch them all at once, like movies, so my TV relationships are still with shows like ‘Law And Order: SVU,’ ‘Shark Tank,’ and HGTV.
If someone had written a review saying, ”Oh, Hello’ is stupid,’ we would have said, ‘Yeah, it is. You’re absolutely right.’ That people liked it was extremely cool.
I don’t make plans anymore. So I’m not living minute to minute.
The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.
I look back on being 17 and think, ‘Oh my God, how did I not die?’
I still like to turn on the TV and watch whatever’s on.
It’s been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I’m like, ‘Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella? Do I carry a briefcase?’ Because I’m trying to be some image of the adults I saw on TV growing up.
Most open-mic experiences I had were okay.
All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don’t understand it.
I just watched a ton of comedy and saw a ton of different styles, and eventually you think, ‘Oh, yeah, I could be like that.’
I’m pretty self-critical about everything I’ve ever done: stand-up, ‘SNL.’
My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it’s kind of hilarious.
Nick Kroll, A.D. Miles, Chelsea Peretti – those were the people I was always doing open mics with.
