Andy Samberg Quotes

I don't ever have the opportunity to wear a suit.

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.

When I took a couple of years to do the documentaries after I left 'American Morning' - what was I gone for, five years? - I didn't feel that I was floating under the radar.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

I was born in a suit.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

Nick Knight was my first big gig as a 'real' model. Prior to and during 'ANTM,' I never actually called myself a model because I always viewed it as a hobby.

I would like to call myself a spiritualist more than an actor.

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

We're more than just our job titles or our list of professional accomplishments.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.