155 Quotes by Michael Ian Black

I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.

All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.

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.

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

With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.