Top 20 Matt Walsh Quotes

I’ve seen several funnel clouds as a kid, too. They’re cool if, you know, they’re, like, two towns over, but they’re scary as hell if you know they’re coming your way.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

When I came into improv, it was almost like an outsider art form.

I’ve always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the ‘Spinal Tap‘ era of comedy.

Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They’re like circus folk. They’re freaks themselves.

The thing about ‘Veep’ is that you never really know where the camera‘s going to be. So you’re not really just saying your line and then just watching it: you’re trying to act the whole time just in case the camera is watching you.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

I can speak a little German, a little Spanish, and I was a psych major, so I’m good at listening to people’s problems.

You can’t be controlling in improv.

I ended up doing a lot of prank shows in my life or prank theater, but I always got fairly nervous about doing ’em.

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it’s more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it’s more like social intelligence.

Stylistically, in improv, I don’t think you can have as many camera tricks; I think you’re kind of shooting more like a documentary: you don’t know where it’s going, so you have to hang back a little more.

I had a small part in a storm-chasing movie, so I did some research into storm-chaser culture.

I’ve never gotten hired for drama because I’m a good improviser. I don’t think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.

I’ve seen a little ‘Mighty Boosh.’

I’ve always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it.

Improv is a disposable art form, but it’s kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a little more forgiving.

There’s a moment in every romantic comedy when a person sees something in someone else that nobody else sees.

Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.

Jane Fonda is someone who impressed me.