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Fred Armisen, born on December 4, 1966, is an American actor known for his comedic talents, particularly for his long-running role on 'Saturday Night Live'. He has starred in numerous films and television series, earning widespread recognition for his unique sense of humor and acting skills.

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“I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.”

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“I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.”

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“I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'”

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“There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have coffee there. Also, the way that it's a little overcast sometimes. Something about Portland just really resonated with me.”

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“I'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of.”

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“I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'”

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“Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.”

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“Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.”

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“The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.”

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“I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.”

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“I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.”

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“I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.”

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“I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.”

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“I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.”

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“Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.”

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“I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.”

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“I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.”

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“Portland is where young people go to retire.”

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“When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.”

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“I still feel lucky whenever I hear a director say, "Action!" Because then I think, "Whoa, I'm really in the movies. This is a real thing happening." I've never not been enthralled by that. I still love it. I still love hearing it, and I feel really lucky all the time.”

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“In my opinion, there's this new phenomenon where guys used to talk about cars a lot in the past. But, more and more it's becoming them talking about recording studios.”

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“Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.”

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“I thrive most when I have to juggle things.”

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“The more I keep myself occupied and jump from thing to thing, the more I think it enriches both.”

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“I started comedy in like 1998.”

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“We lived in Chicago, but the music we were inspired by was from D. C.”

Inspired Chicago

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“People are always nice, so I can't complain. My name used to be SNL! More and more, people call me by my name.”

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“Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].”

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“I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.”

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“I met Steve Jobs once. In '06? He had a sense of humor.”

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“That smile on Stive Jobs face... My impersonation came from being a fan.”

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“I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.”

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“I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.”

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“My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese.”

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“I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.”

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“Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.”

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“[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in London. And he didn't overuse synthesizers. He used them just enough. It's such a cool sound.”

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“"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.”

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“If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it stays with you and when we are all 90, we're going to look back at those songs, and it's going to be emotional. And when someone plays it, and you know it, and you're going to go, "I know that song and I love it."”

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“If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney.”

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“Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.”

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“I'm a fan of Talking Heads going way back.”

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“I loved our music discussion. I live for discussions like that. It's my favorite thing because it means that people care about music, and actually have an opinion. I feel like it's dying. Everyone is just really like, they take a step back, but to actually have conviction about what's good and bad: love it.”

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“I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.”

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“I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band and we worked really hard and did not get very far. I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky. That's never lost in me, that I went through Saturday Night Live.”

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“There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people. I wanted attention.”

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“As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.”

Thinking Moving Painting Painter

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“There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.”

People World Art Disagreement

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“It's already years ago now, but there's that South Korean music artist Psy, who had that hit song and it was a hit song here. I'm like, "Wait a minute. There's a chance. There's a way we can have language not be such an important part of comedy."”

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“The population increasing, some of it could be in countries we haven't thought of making art in. I've never entertained making comedy in China. Like what world is that? I don't know how they would perceive art or sketch comedy. It's not a matter of intellect; it's a matter of language.”

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About the Author

Born: December 4, 1966
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 58

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