Words matter. These are the best Sam Richardson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My cousin Dwayne was really the first person who was like, ‘You’re funny, man!’ I was like, ‘OK, sure.’
I feel that, a lot of times, Detroiters have an aversion to seeing nice new things come into Detroit. But I’m like, ‘What’s wrong with that? Everywhere else has it! Why can’t we?’
Being on ‘Veep,’ it’s so much fun, and I get to put so much creative input in there, but at the end of the day, what they say, I do.
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.
At Second City and improvising at iO, you’re creating a character in an instant. All of a sudden, you’re creating this history and this past for your character, and you’re discovering it while you’re doing it, and that’s part of the fun of it.
With Richard Splett, he’s like the only character on ‘Veep’ that has no angle. He’s guileless. He also believes in the power of government.
The movie I’ve seen the most is ‘Ghostbusters’ or ‘Ghostbusters II.’ I used to watch those movies nonstop.
I really enjoy ‘Baskets.’ I’m a big fan of ‘Archer’ and ‘Mr. Robot.’
When you grow up with siblings, you can be like, ‘Isn’t this weird? Isn’t this funny? Do we agree on this, or do we disagree?’ You have some point of reference, some touchstone. When you grow up an only child, everything is internalized.
Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you’d be fine.
On ‘Veep,’ people are connecting with each other, even if they’re making backhanded comments about somebody behind someone else’s back.
A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it’s such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end.
What I find funny are peoples’ blind spots. That’s the funniest thing about anybody – when they just don’t realize who they are. What’s funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it’s a swan.
I grew up between Detroit and Ghana, and I had to make friends in an instant. It sharpened my wit, and also, just for my own sanity’s sake, I felt like I wanted to entertain myself. So I’m going through all these experiences, and I ask myself, ‘Is this crazy? Is it? Wait, what’s so funny about this?’
The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.
I’m an audiophile and have been collecting records for as long as I can remember.
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from the States, so even in my family when I was growing up, my mom said I was the American one, and my dad said I was the weird African one.
I’m really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books – from being, essentially, an only child. I’m my mom’s only child and my dad’s fourth child, but separated by 14 years.
There are people there who live, work, and have lives. Not everybody who lives in Detroit is a gangsta.
I would love to carry on with Second City and see where that takes me, but it’s always been a dream to work on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and do films.
I’ve worked on shows where it’s fun; you want to hang out. If you’re enjoying it, that’s how you take ownership of it. You want to give to be a part of this thing. I feel that’s the mood on the set of ‘Detroiters.’
If you want to land a punchline for how bad something is, you say ‘Detroit,’ even, like, in conversation. ‘Oh, well, things could be worse. You could be in Detroit.’ It makes me so mad.
I’ve worked on shows where the set was very morose and boring, kind of like nobody wanted to be there. I felt that affects the work.
I’ve never seen ‘E.T.’
I grew up watching ‘Ghostbusters.’ I loved that movie before I knew it was a comedy! As a kid, I lived between Ghana and Detroit and in Ghana for, like, first and second grade. And I had a VHS tape of that, and I would watch it every day. It’s kind of like why I got into comedy.
