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In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

- Bob Odenkirk
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I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job. There are so many decisions that law enforcement officers have to make, and the incident or situation changes so much from moment to moment and day to day. I have a lot of respect for officers and what they go through.

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

I love making wisecracks.

I went to New York in '87 to write for 'Saturday Night Live.'

I always wrote risque comedy and crude comedy.

My experience - and it might be just the kind of comedy that I do, which is usually sketch comedy - is that there's a lot more texture and subplot in drama than in comedy.

I remember making 'Mr. Show,' thinking, 'Man this stuff is really funny to me.' I don't know if anyone else will love it, but I know I'm going to still watch it in 15 years if I'm still alive and laugh really hard. Even though we had very high standards, we were trying to excite and please ourselves.

Humans are ridiculous. We're all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it's optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you're never going to get there, and that's OK.

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In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.