Carrie Brownstein Quotes

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I do want to make powerful works of art with people, but I also just want to have fun. I've never done a romantic comedy - I'm sure it would be a blast.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to find other people out there with you.

I grew up wanting to entertain.

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

Real entertainers love to entertain.

We want to be just like the greatest band. But I think we're just sort of both naturally humorous fellas.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

There are other artists out there, in which some like to write and others like to perform and others like to talk, but I really just love to perform and entertain.

From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.

The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.