Eric Andre Quotes

If the crowd is full of assholes, it's no fun. If the crowd is cool, it's great.

I can't tell if the world is worse now or if we just have more cameras. There are cameras everywhere, so now the world knows how bad the world is.

I'm insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don't feel complete.

I think that we put too much weight on who the president is.

Bill Cosby spoke out against The Simpsons and there was this kind of evangelical, right-wing sect that was against The Simpsons. Fox was a new network at the time, though, so they were going to take risks.

Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?

I care a lot; I'm very sensitive.

I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the joke is, it's time to move on.

I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.

I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like 'to the back of the auditorium, to the back of the auditorium' and the liquid "u." 'The payment is duuue on Tuuuesday.' I also learned how to fence. If anything, when I moved to Los Angeles, I didn't fit in, in any way. I had to do comedy, because I was talking so pretentiously.

I'm an elderly Jewish lesbian trapped in a 33 year old nerd's body.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.

A hole is a hole has always been my motto.

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

Comedy is often about pain.

You see a lot of sketch variety shows where each segment is one joke that they repeat over and over and over again, and the sketches are always three or four minutes too long.

Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.

Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."

I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said "hell" and "damn" in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

I'm an Aries. I need everybody to like me.

All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it's wrong; if it's an attempt to cope with or make sense of tragedy, it's something different. If it's commenting on society's flaws, versus adding to society's flaws, I think the audience can tell.

When I'm watching South Park I don't think it's written by neo-Nazis. They know exactly what they're doing.

Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

There's two sides to the coin. I think I'm much happier that [Barack] Obama won over John McCain or Mitt Romney, because I think Obama did something culturally for the country.

I feel like we put all the weight on the president, rather than distributing the weight to all of the elected officials.

I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.

You can't really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.

You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else's.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

How many n-bombs are dropped? It depends on what I post.

I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.