Words matter. These are the best Brendan Hunt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I lived in Amsterdam for five years doing comedy out there.
Sarah Niles is a rock. She’s just great. And she’s actually quite a hoot, off-camera.
I guess I believe that whatever crazy things you’re getting up to outside of work doesn’t inherently mean that you’re some kind of jerk or anything. Everyone’s going to live differently.
I can neither confirm nor deny that if you entered data into an algorithm for ‘building the perfect actor’ it would produce Brett Goldstein.
I have Irish on both sides of my family.
There is nothing in this world that is good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
I believe my last name Hunt is an anglicized version of O’Fianna.
The conclusion you first draw about someone is often informed merely by what you’re bringing to it, and it will lead you to underestimating the full depth of the people you have so judged.
You know, I once did a short film with Kay Cannon. It was set at a gynecologist’s office and I was her nurse in hospital scrubs.
Soccer is the most improvisational sport. There are no set plays. And in soccer, as in improv, you are trying to find the flow.
And when you start the season writing process, you just pitch a bunch of different ideas. In the end, you probably have 20 ideas that you like.
Oh, my God, I’ve mixed up my ‘Star Wars’ movies. Oh, no, the Internet is gonna come for me.
I learned early on that it’s important to respect every idea as if it could potentially be worth something later.
You know, I do not have the CV of a man who has been working really regularly.
The true answer is I like being involved in a project where I can contribute on both sides of the camera. The more immersed I can be, the better.
That would be a really ugly headline: ‘American Actor Dies the Dumbest Way Possible.’
I like Jimmy Stewart!
I’ve now spent almost a full year of the last two years of my life in London, and I still have to think really, really hard before I cross the street. There are too many instincts fighting each other, and I don’t want to die.
It’s a lot easier to change and improve a thing that is already finished as opposed to something you’re in the middle of.
The same thing that happened to Ted Lasso in the show, his expansion beyond those initial perceptions, happened to ‘Ted Lasso,’ the show. People thought it would be one thing, but no, it’s a whole lot more.
I don’t necessarily believe in moderation, but I do believe in the dangers of excess, and that’s with some good things too.
The show was called ‘Jean-Paul Sartre and Ringo.’ Bonnie Hunt was in the cast and she made the biggest impression on me. That show just blew me away. I couldn’t believe these people were doing this. So that had a big effect on me.
Sometimes you know a friend so well, you take for granted, ‘Oh, they’re just like this, and they’re going to be okay.’
Any time I’m at a bar, I’m hoping somebody asks me about the offside rule. Give me four bottles of beer and one bottle of ketchup and I’m going to explain this to you so well because I love explaining soccer.
Gucci! Paul Smith! I love it! You discover it’s not just names; that stuff looks pretty good once it’s on you.
The fact that Americans do have this ingrained optimism, even against a lot of actual information about how things work, is not that bad of a quality. You know, I think it is one of our better qualities.
I learned this lesson too late, frankly: Do not judge it while you’re doing it. Do not go back and fix things that are 20 pages ago when you’re already 20 pages past that.
My mom’s family was 100 percent Irish, in the American way of being Irish, and then my dad was half Irish.
One thing my old improv teacher taught me is when you’re not in the improv scene and you’re standing back watching your partners, you ask, ‘What does the scene need?’
No one paid me to bite their butt – we’re not going that far. But I’ve gone to some places, I’ve seen some things.
I think it’s not controversial to say there’s a lot of us who need to be reminded that we’re wasting our time and making things worse for ourselves if we’re carrying anger around with us all the time.
My dad had just come back from Vietnam, and I think he had PTSD that he never treated, in that sort of macho-denial way. So they were divorced by the time I was 2, and my mom tried to raise me and my younger sister by herself. That proved very taxing, so there was a lot of moving around.
No matter what kind of tough times you’re going through, if you can get a night out with friends and really just lose yourself in the music, that’s just straight-up good for you, you know?
The hesitancy that was felt by clubs before we actually shot the first one essentially went away as soon as they saw it. That has now worked as a real calling card for us because now the Premier League knows about ‘Ted Lasso.’
When the mask comes down when the plane’s in turbulence, you’ve gotta put it on yourself first or you’re not going to be able to do much good, even for the kid screaming next to you.
I all but literally had a conversation with myself of like, ‘You have to stop thinking about ‘Ted Lasso.’ It’s not healthy to think about ‘Ted Lasso,’ it’s not going to happen, it’s just not going to happen, man.’
One thing you learn from comedy writing, or sketch writing, is just to be vicious about cutting. Do not get sentimental about cutting. That bit doesn’t work, get it out.
It sounds cheesy, but have a hobby you like. Fill yourself with that, distract yourself, get away from it completely – go hiking, play scary German card games, or create things.
There are some showrunners who run their room like dictators, from what I hear.
Output is more important than ideas.
