Even if you're popular, there are times when you just feel like you're not a part of things. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“I suspected, around the time I graduated college, that we're all versions of targets, fired at by indifferent events. If that was… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's very un-childlike. So a lot of times,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
“If I hear the term ‘healing journey’ one more f–king time… It is not a ‘healing journey.’ It’s a ‘numb slog.’ It’s… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
The process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
“If I hear the term ‘healing journey’ one more f–king time… It is not a ‘healing journey.’ It’s a ‘numb slog.’ It’s just a,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
“hobos' (a slang term that combines the words 'hope' and 'bowl of beans given to me for free by a woman who then initiated… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you, you'd better… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
What I was trying to say in that bit, without saying it out loud, is that there were things - you're right, everything is… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
I have a lot of friends who were stand-ups, and they just stopped after a while, because they didn't like that battle, or they… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share
