Fred Armisen Quotes

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

Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

I was in a band and it wasn't working out the way I wanted. Then somehow, little by little, I started doing a couple comedy things. All of a sudden I was being asked to do more and more comedy things. There was this message from the world saying, "Maybe you should go this direction."

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.

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.

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

Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.

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

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.

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'.