Brad Garrett

People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.

I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.

You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny.

Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.

I'm totally, totally into old Vegas.

I am so fascinated and taken by the Golden Knights.

I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.

Sports were never my thing.

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

My act is a little raunchy. When people come to my club, I have to warn them it isn't Robert from 'Raymond.'

I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.

There's not a day that goes by where I don't think, 'Oh, I'm a lucky pup.'

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

I'm not big on game shows.

The night I won the Emmy, I probably cried for three hours on and off.

I love performing, and it's important that I do it at my own club, absolutely. It's good for me. It's good for business.

There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.

I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.

I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.

Men and women are like cats and dogs. I've learned more about myself from women. My comedy is based on this.

I'm a large, bombastic type of windbag.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.