Dave Foley

Comedian

23 Quotes

I mean, 'Kids In The Hall' is the reason I have any career at all.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'

'NewsRadio' was fantastic.

NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.

Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

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