Explore Quotes by Fred Armisen

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

You should approach everything in life like, 'What is this?'

Missing something doesn't help anything. You can only look at the future, what you can keep doing.

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.

When 'Pale Fire' came out, that album was a big friend of mine. I've just always purely been a fan of El Perro del Mar.

I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

When I'm hungry, I need to eat right away.

Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time.

Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.

I like that 'Broad City' exists, and I love being around at the same time as 'Key & Peele.' I love those guys - I just, I love their faces.

I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled.

My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems.

I get very, very little sleep.

Art should not be an easy thing.

No yoga. I can barely sit down.

I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead.

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

I really like watching TV at home.

There's almost no such thing as a hipster.