Craig Robinson

Actor

79 Quotes

You know Seth and Evan, they were lead writers for 'Pineapple Express', and they are great at mixing things up. Taking different genres and mish-mashing them up to create something dynamically new. They'll throw comedy at you, but with a dash of horror and fright that is supposed to make you shocked and scared.

In acting, you get to that place where it's serene, where you just feel it. I'm glad to be doing the drama because you can kind of take your time more and let a moment live more.

It's good to do something different than the subtleties of 'The Office' all the time.

A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.

My first time in Germany. We started off in Heidelberg, which is this quaint, nice town. The Germans, they shoot just like the Americans, except for, if it's a 10-hour day, they're leaving at 5. You don't go to 5:30, 6, 7. No. And then we had a fest for everything.

The end of 2016, Mariah Carey got on stage, and it was mean. The technical difficulties that she came across, now everybody think that she was lost.

Comedy chose me. I always had this urge to be silly that I couldn't control. I remember my father having me read 'The Three Little Pigs' to him, and I would improv all around the story, like when one pig's house got blown over, he put on his gym shoes and took off.

I've seen some beyond-amazing performers do karaoke who should be on stage somewhere, and I've seen people who you rather didn't enter the bar. That's the beautiful thing about it; it's for everybody.

I got mad love for hot tubs.

I so respect Sundance. I'd been hearing about it for years.

I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.

The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be ready to attack. You gotta shut your brain off and just go.

You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.

Who knows if I would get to do 'Mr. Robot' if I was on 'Mr. Robinson?'

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

I think I, and the audience, would enjoy a kissing scene with me and Rihanna. That would've been cool for me to see, rehearse, practice, and all that. Me and Rihanna.

Anything to do with 'The Office' I would revisit.

My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.

Ever since I can remember, I've always been silly.

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