Top 40 Brian Quinn Quotes

Making a TV show is a lot of work. I actually feel a little duped on this subject. Nowhere in the stories about getting on a television show do you ever hear about how much hard work it is.

I might be an idiot.

The best comedy comes from a specific view point, and there is no doubt that the Indian culture has it is own take on the world.

I sound like Joe Pesci and Frankenstein had a baby.

I feel very positive that someone told me if I get on television there would be limo rides. Definitely someone said I would be getting a ton of free stuff from companies that want me to be seen with their products. None of this happened.

I have a Superman tattoo.

I didn’t expect to be successful, but I am glad that so many people love the show.

Yeah, when a new person comes on the show for any job, it’s interesting to watch the transition. There are very few barriers between us and the crew. There’s no hierarchy. So everyone has this weird freedom that we’re told by our very experienced crew isn’t a thing on other shows as much.

Please understand, I’m not a hearts-and-flowers type of guy. Never have been. I don’t like grand romantic gestures. I don’t like the endless declarations of love, bouncing back between two people like an overused tennis ball.

What we’ll do is at the beginning of every season we’ll take stock of everything and decide we have enough stuff to keep going and whether we want to do it, and then we do it.

None of us are really singled out as like, the star of the show, you know what I mean? Nobody’s in anybody’s shadow.

Every Bollywood movie looks like the most fun movie ever made, and if that was all we knew of Indian cinema, it would be enough.

I can’t tell you how much I wanted to be Han Solo when I was a teenager.

People who win Emmys don’t fool around.

What do I know about opening a brewery? Nothing.

When I go to a live show, to me that’s work… all those people in that crowd paid money to see us, so that’s a big responsibility.

We’re basically TV gods.

I hadn’t planned on being on TV. It wasn’t something I had planned my whole life.

I think the world at large is a Jaden Smith fanatic.

I’d be a bad friend if I didn’t know what not to say to my boys.

I think the big spin we were able to put on it was most hidden camera shows, the people that don’t know they’re on the show were the butt of the joke and they’re kind of being made fun of and the big thing that we make different is that we’re the butt of the jokes and the joke’s always on us.

We all grew up on Staten Island in New York City.

I genuinely love the guys and I love working with them. It happens all the time, when we can’t actually believe this is our job.

I don’t even think about the comedy community at all.

Bon Jovi’s a fan of the show – his family has come to set to hang out and watch it.

First and foremost, I love beer, and if there’s one job that’s more fun than being on TV or being a firefighter, it’s gotta be making beer.

I just love Staten Island so much – I’ll never leave it.

I was fascinated by ‘Return of the Jedi.’ I was just in awe of that movie. The Millennium Falcon being piloted by other people – Lando and Nien Nunb. It was amazing that other people were in the cockpit.

I have a healthy amount of belly going on.

We started together, buddies in an all-boy’s Catholic school.

I have no use for Valentine’s Day, with its limited menu and cramped seating.

It’s weird, in New York City, we consider anything above Manhattan ‘upstate.’

I lived with older sisters, and I’d bang pots and pans when they slept.

We’re all very concerned about putting out a subpar show. We want to maintain what we call quality.

I didn’t want to be a comedian.

I was born in ’76, so I vaguely remember seeing ‘Empire Strikes Back’ in theaters. But I remember just being obsessed with ‘Return of the Jedi’ and having my parents bring me to see it – at least four times in theaters – and being excited about the Ewoks, and coming home to play with the toy Ewok Village.

Is this why I don’t get commercials? Because there’s a bargain basement Brian Quinn out there, riding around undercutting me?

I always felt like I had a difficult time in my 20s but I had good people looking out for me. I went to therapy; I found a great therapist. All that stuff helped so immensely.

Melding Staten Island history with making beer has been a dream come true.

Even on the bad days, I’m working with my best friends. It’s pretty unbelievable.