155 Quotes by Michael Ian Black

By the end of the time I’m writing a book, I’m tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don’t know why it is true with me that I can’t just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I’m constantly flitting from one thing to another.

Once I commit to something, I commit – at least until I quit, which can happen at any time.

Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I’m hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it’s always going to be incomplete.

I’m very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.

You can’t write a children’s book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children’s books, but it would actually be bad if I did.

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there’s so much business you have to conduct. There’s so much guiding you have to do.

I don’t really read children’s books or deal with children’s books, so I don’t have any relationship with them other than my own.

My goal is to work. That’s the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

There is no feeling quite so delicious as that of being virtuous without having had to do anything.