Rob Corddry quotes:

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

I just want to do cool stuff.

I have to stay true to myself.

As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

I want to manufacture a feud.

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

I am realizing how old I am 'cause I am meeting so many people that were born in the 80s, which is crazy to me that I was going through puberty and [they weren't] even alive.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.

I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted.

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."

I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's always a best friend and the woman has a best friend and they always antagonise each other and then they end up together at the end of the movie.

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.

If it's January, I'm dead in three hours. But in June, I'd be hungry, but I'd make it out. I'd find my way without a map or compass. I say that with confidence. I can build a fire without a match.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

I'm a complete egomaniac. It makes me feel terrible to say [being interviewed] is hard. It's taxing in a way. Just 'cause it's a lot of mental energy just to keep focused. I actually think it's harder for journalists.

It looks like garbage, my ass. But trust me, you're lucky it's not full-frontal.

It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

I've been an Apple guy since the mid 80's and that's when I was like, "Boy, you guys really got me here. I know exactly what you're doing, right down to your price points."

My job was basically to look at a good friend completely naked and rub lotion on her back. I was naked too, but I got to put a towel on almost immediately. So I was like, "Well, this is going to be embarrassing, but it's also going to be kinda awesome."

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

Pat OBrien knows nothing. Hes on the Hell express.

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

Stand-up is a real art form in itself and one that I really think to be good at you have to devote your entire life to. It's the really, really good ones that end up getting to do the things that I like to do: movies, TV shows, and stuff like that. It's a really hard gig and it just never called to me.

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.