Tim Heidecker famous quotes

Most of my ideas just come out funny.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Ideas

A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Guitar #Play #Rocks

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Laughing #Sinking #Feels

I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Records #Wells

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.
-- Tim Heidecker

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Dad #Men #Scary

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Fashion #Dad #Guy

I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Taken #Thinking #Ideas

There's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of character I've done before: He's kind of dumb and he's kind of arrogant, and a little seedy. A little coke-y. He's gotten into the cocaine or he's had too much coffee. It's been pretty fun. Not all the songs are like that but it sort of creeps in there.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Song #Fun #Coffee

Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [WAREHEIM]and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Book #Gazing #Labels

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.
-- Tim Heidecker

#School #Dope #Interesting

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Entertainment #Not Trusting #Skeptical

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Young #Persons

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Body #Bigs

It's never fun to read death threats.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Fun #Threat

Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.
-- Tim Heidecker

#People #Way #Needs

Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!
-- Tim Heidecker

#Fun #Night #People

The scariest thing about screening a comedy if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Real #Drama #Laughing

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Real #Thinking #Honest

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
-- Tim Heidecker

#School #College #Self

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
-- Tim Heidecker

#College #Rocks #Band

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Long #Political #News

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Hero #Musical #Bob

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.
-- Tim Heidecker

#World #Eric #Ridiculous

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Thinking #Emotion #Expressive

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Hate #Hipster

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Mom #Sarcastic #Dad

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Movie

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Movie #Way #Stylist

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Intelligent #Choices #Wells

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Thinking #Python #Long

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.
-- Tim Heidecker

#People #Artistic #Young

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Crazy #School #Kids

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Thinking #People #Healthy

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Political #Littles #Junkie

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Fun #School #Personality

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Want #Situation

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Expression #Class #Issues

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
-- Tim Heidecker

#Strong #Real #Thinking