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Andy Richter, born on October 28, 1966, is an American actor known for his comedic talents. He is best recognized for his roles in 'The Ben Stiller Show' and 'Spin City', where he showcased his unique sense of humor and acting skills. Richter's career began in comedy clubs, which eventually led to television and film.

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“Work for peace. Think before you say something. Are you making things better or just taking out your trash. The point is growth. Constant process of reclamation. Clearing out the deadwood and making room for things to grow.”

Peace Understanding Growth Relationships Talking Conversation

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“I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.”

People Thinking Whole Keys Be Good

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“One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.”

Littles Bigs Kids Life Is Known Stress Financial Cancer Seeking Cures Tension Hardship Little Kid Financial Hardship

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“My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.”

Way Kind Ability Bubbles Sanctity Retrospect

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“I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.”

Hate Reading Tvs I Hate Down And Magazines Puzzles Crosswords Reading Magazines

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“I have a wife and child, and I guess that would constitute a family, and sometimes I watch shows where the people aren't related. And I don't get nervous, get the sweats, and have to run out of the room. I mean, I can handle it.”

People Mean Children I Can Sometimes Shows Running Rooms Watches Wife Handle Nervous Related Sweat

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“The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.”

Thinking Wells Important Audience Focus Tension Satisfying Worthwhile Versus

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“I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.”

Firsts I Can My Own Structure Tension Satisfying

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“Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.”

Want Littles Done What You Want Providing Codependent

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“Aside from accidentally by my kids, like wrestling around with my kids, no one has ever punched me in the face.”

Kids Faces Wrestling

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“Outside from with my older brother - and this would have stopped about age 12 - I haven't been in a physical fight in my life. We used to punch each other, but that was little kid punching. You're too scared to hit anybody really.”

Littles Kids Age Used Fighting Havens Brother Scared Little Kid Older Brother Punching

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“I always find it kind of more interesting when people ask questions like, "What were you like as a kid?" Or just kind of personal history stuff, like, "What was the lowest point of your life?" Because that would be like, "Huh, well, I'd have to think about that one." And then give an honest answer. I think a lot of people don't want to give honest answers, or they just are in business showbiz mode when they're talking about stuff, so that's probably why a lot of that kind of thing doesn't get asked.”

People Thinking Giving Kind Kids Interesting Honest Lowest Showbiz

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“I remember Ozzy Osbourne making a fuss on The Osbournes - people were making a big deal about him taking the garbage out, and he said, "Well, who else is going to do it?" The garbage is full, and you're standing right there. You're still a human being who is going to make yourself a sandwich.”

People Remember

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“It is rare, with people who are on television or celebrities or actors - it's rare to go to their house for a party and find they cooked. That's rare. Usually people don't cook for their own parties, and they don't buy their own gifts. There are people that do that, and that is a special thing. Those kind of little human touches are nice.”

People Kind House Party Nice Special

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“I don't waste a lot of time on profound embarrassment. I have always been somewhat the same person. I can think of maybe particular items of clothing that I think, "Oh God, I used to wear that?" But nothing serious. It's not like for a while I became some sort of goth wannabe. I've always pretty much been me.”

Thinking Serious Profound Embarrassment Goth

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“When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad people, and I was working for slave wages anyway, so there were some times when I might have filled out a couple of blank taxi receipts and kept some petty cash. But like I say, I was very selective. It was only people that I thought were assholes. The people that I liked I went far and above saving them money, much less taking it. But that's it. I'm pretty moral. I don't even like stealing jokes.”

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“I feel like I'm a showbiz professional. This is my job, it's going to have ups and downs. I'm lucky to be able to do this for a living, but I also do feel like I don't anticipate changing the world. All I can really do is do a good job when I'm hired to do a job, and be happy at home.”

World Home Lucky Changing The World Good Job Ups & Downs Showbiz

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“I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.”

People Thinking Want Should Shows Should Have Compliment Host Awkward Thank You Talk Shows

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“I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.”

Way Looks Courses Five Kings Prom Homecoming

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“There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.”

People Mountain Gun Naked Boots Hiking Firing Mountain Top

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“Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.”

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“But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.”

Stuff Fiction Nonfiction

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“I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.”

People Nice Translate Popularity Being Nice Be Nice To People

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“I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.”

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“At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.”

Thinking Shows Games Levels Television Game Shows

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“I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.”

Swearing Allan Poe

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“I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.”

World Kind Mean Prudes

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“If somebody's looking at pictures of naked people and you go, 'Oh I don't want to see that,' you're lying. Cause naked people are always interesting. Always. Whether they're beautiful, or naked or 500 pounds.”

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“I'm not that professional.”

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“If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.”

Ifs Want Audience Aim

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“It's a very nice thing to have a baby.”

Nice Baby Very Nice Nice Things

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“No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!”

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“Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.”

People Born Brain Musician Jazz Mathematical Jazz Music Jazz Musician

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“The people on Quintuplets were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.”

People Shows Taste Producers

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“It's funny, because Arrested Development is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called Quintuplets for a season for Fox, and this was while Arrested Development was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.”

Way Different Shows Used Next Development Seasons Different Ways Hanging Out Tied Foxes Arrested

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“Well, I refer to Celebrity Jeopardy as the short-bus Jeopardy, because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.”

Wells Whole New York Easier Stores Bus Columns Jeopardy

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About the Author

Born: October 28, 1966
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 36

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