189 Quotes by Fred Armisen

I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.

If something seems like a little venue, don't treat it like that. Do it all. If you're sort of wondering why you're doing something at some location, just do it - any size theater, production, or whatever. It's all helpful.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy.

Missing something doesn't help anything. You can only look at the future, what you can keep doing.

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