Quotes by Michael Ian Black

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.

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?”

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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