Matt Besser Quotes

For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for me, comes from kind of a hostile engine.

I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a bad mood and have had a really awful day, don't come in my face because I am not tolerant and I am not a goddess; I can't handle it after a point. I am going to get up, and I am going to scream, and I am going to say bad things to you.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

When anger comes, there is no way of satisfying its demands

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.

I've definitely seen people get angry or really uncomfortable with stuff I've made in the past. And my stand-up, if you could call what I do stand-up, is quite aggressive, too.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

On a good day, I'm a bitter, angry, chip-on-my-shoulder type of guy.

I do not want to get hit in the face for real. I'll get mad.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

If someone leaves me a bad review, I briefly fantasize about pushing them down a well.