Bob Odenkirk
Bob Odenkirk
Robert John "Bob" Odenkirkis an American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer, best known for his role as shady lawyer Saul Goodmanon the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and its spin-off, Better Call Saul. Together with fellow comedian and writer David Cross, Odenkirk co-created and co-starred in the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth22 October 1962
CityBerwyn, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.
When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.
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.
Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.
I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after people go, ‘OK, I’ve had enough of that improvisation, I’ve had enough of those short comedy bits. Tell me a story, tell me a more complex story, something that lasts and maybe has a little more meaning to it.’ Don’t ever look at what’s happening now; look at what’s coming next.
When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.
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.
I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.
We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.
My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.
I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.
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.
You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.