21 Quotes by Paul Scheer

You're only as good as your body of work.

The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film.

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

My background is in improv and writing.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.

Vincent Forte was kicked out of the UFC because he was too hardcore.

Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on ‘24,’ but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he’s a jerk who can beat up bad people.

There’s no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.