155 Quotes by Michael Ian Black

Super excited about things I'm going to do; never excited about things I'm actually doing.

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there’s no architecture.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic, but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.

If I revise a children’s book, if I’m spending three hours on the first draft, I’m probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That’s hard work.

I probably should be thinking of better ideas on how to promote myself, but I don’t really spend a lot of time doing it. I really don’t know how to promote effectively.

Because hair loss is only superficial when it happens to somebody else.

The whole idea of punk rock is that you’re dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It’s such a type. And that’s what I was, without knowing it.

It’s such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You’re putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

That’s been my fear all along. That I’m not enough, and I still don’t trust at all that I am.