Top 40 Max Greenfield Quotes

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

I’m Jewish and my wife isn’t so right now we’re literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

I’m just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like… okay.

‘Acceptance’ is always a good word.

I’m very married.

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

I remember having a feeling like, ‘I can’t believe this is happening!’ Two years ago I was auditioning for The Disney Channel, and now Paul Rudd is saying, ‘Hey man, congratulations on your Emmy nomination!’

I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I’m sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, ‘Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn’t want to write me an email back!’ I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.

My parents were involved in the record industry, so I was exposed to the arts very early.

Another show I really enjoyed working on was ‘Raising The Bar.’ I did four or five episodes of that show.

If the gay community thinks you’re doing a good job, you’re in. I don’t think anything gets done in this business without the gay community – at least not anything good.

I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I’m joking or not.

Having worked with Sarah Paulson on ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ and seeing the lengths she goes to when shooting a scene, you go, ‘Oh, so that’s what this is going to be like.’

My parents were the best. They were very supportive.

I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You’ve got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we’re best friends on top of it, so we’re very fortunate.

I just never want to be in this situation where I get to set and they’re like, ‘We rewrote this scene, you’re now naked.’ I need a little prep work.

I’d actually love to play Sonny in ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ now that it’s being adapted for Broadway. People don’t talk about that movie that much, but it’s really a beautiful gay love story.

If you knew my wife, you’d be like, ‘Yeah, you’re very married.’ She runs the household. I refer to her as ‘the greatest director I’ve ever worked with.’

In my latter years I’ve decided that there’s too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it’s not for me anymore.

There are extraordinary positives and advantages to Facebook and social media and things that genuinely do bring us together. With that comes the horrible negatives of it, but I don’t think social media is going anywhere.

Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.

I hate to give myself credit for anything, but I will say I really enjoy, as an actor, and especially with comedy stuff, playing with different rhythms and with different ways around a joke. There’s always an obvious route, and there’s one that maybe is a little bit different.

I always tell people I’m not one of these guys that was, like, born with, like, a halfway decent body.

Having two kids is like having 1000. It’s just scheduling, moving around, being mobile.

Yeah, a lot of people ask me to take my shirt off, which is aggressive. I wish that I were just one of those guys who was just like, ‘You know, look, when I was seven I had a six-pack, and it just never went away.’

It is crazy. It’s our first kid, and all of a sudden, she identifies letters as what they are, and you go, ‘This kid is a genius – she’s obviously some sort of savant!’

I always feel like people in general are much weirder and insane than anybody really wants to admit. How dare somebody watch anything and go, ‘That’s not real!’ Go on the subway. For five minutes.

Here’s what’s nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they’re not good ones. And then you’ll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you’ll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you’ll follow through and you’ll go, ‘You know what? It’s nice to be right.’

What’s fun about ‘New Girl’ is that when we sit down for a table read, we are always in the mind-set of, ‘Well, wonder what this is gonna be like!’

You don’t want to leave ‘what if’s in life.

I think everything is its own beast. I think every project has its own unique insanity, and I think that’s what’s really fun about it.

When I’m in the car sometimes it’s like, ‘Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.’ You know what I mean? I don’t want to listen to Tom Waits.

When you get to Heaven, God points you to the all-Entenmann’s craft service and says, ‘You can eat all you want, and you don’t gain any weight.’

‘New Girl’ was a wonderful experience, but for seven years, we were shooting single-cam that is not handheld, that is traditionally shot, and they’re asking you to improv, and you’re on location. It’s a real grind.

I lived with a bunch of guys for about a year in L.A. when I was younger. But I never had a weird roommate situation.

Before ‘New Girl,’ I had just been grinding in TV for a really long time. I had been testing for so many shows and not getting them. You don’t know how difficult it is or how lucky you have to be – and I only say lucky because there are so many people out there – to get a show on the air and keep it going.

Early success is really scary. Especially in acting.

There’s nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

Shows like ‘All in the Family’ and now ‘Mom’ – there’s a tradition of tackling real issues.