Jemaine Clement famous quotes

03-30-2025

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
-- Jemaine Clement

#New York #Cities #Creative
The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Jobs #Writing #Boring
I grew up in front of a TV.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Tvs #Grew Up #Grew
I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Character #Play #Balance
I'm a real pawn-shopper.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Real #Pawns #Shoppers
There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Difficult #Situation #Awkwardness
There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up
-- Jemaine Clement

#Effort #Bigs #Stage
I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Thinking #Cities #Would Be
They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.
-- Jemaine Clement

#People
I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Guitar #Going Out #Porch
I can only think of one wacky best friend who I thought was awesome: Rhys Ifans in 'Notting Hill.' He really nailed the wacky best friend.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Friendship #Thinking #Hills
Why can't a heterosexual guy tell a heterosexual guy / That he thinks his booty is fly?
-- Jemaine Clement

#Thinking #Guy #Booty
I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Grandma #Mum #Raised
In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Real #Keys #Sick
Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Sci Fi #Grew Up #Wells
What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.
-- Jemaine Clement

#Thinking #Nuggets #Boring

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