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Bob Odenkirk Biography

Robert John Odenkirk (born October 22, 1962) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for his role as smooth-talking lawyer Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill on the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul, and for the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David, which he co-created and starred in with fellow comic and friend David Cross.

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I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.

Everybody, Persona, Present, Think, Thinking

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.

Crazy, Thinking, Tvs, Valuable, Become, Think

The world needs less destruction.

Destruction, Needs, World

You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.

Basics, Effort, Greater, Guarantee, See, Trying

I don't think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.

Sketch, Think, Thinking

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun. "

Darkness, Fun, Somewhat, Surround

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

Eating, Like, Meat, Red, Stop

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

Honesty, Humanity, Pathos, People, Real

You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be shaping the material all the time. And the other thing is, you get all the blame when you direct and it doesn't work. You get slammed. So that's another reason to know what you're making, why you're making it, and make it the way you want.

Actors, Blame, Done, Movie, Shaping, Use

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Costner, Enough, Kevin, Stories, Told, Worked

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Become, Pope, Say

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

Honest, Important, Line, Real, Skill, Skills

I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right, you just, in an organic way, translate your ideas into those templates. That's the way I perceive the process happening.

Brain, Limitations, Perceive, Templates, Translate

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.

Acting, Fun, Hard Work, Thinking, Unless

Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.

Directing, Fun, Jobs, Like, Vacation

I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.

Appreciative, Different, Four, Like, Years

With acting, if a friend asked me to be in a movie or TV show, there's a lot of things on my résumé I did without reading them or knowing what they were. I just said I'd do that because a friend wrote it, directed, produced, acted in it. With directing, I'm sticking to my guns, not that a lot of people are begging me to direct.

Directed, Gun, People, Reading, Tv Shows, Wrote

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

Constrained, Feels, Past

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

Challenging, Interesting, Job, Jobs, Law

In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.

Clever, Enough, Funny, Ideas, Sticks

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