Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt
Patton Peter Oswaltis an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice actor, known for roles such as Spencer Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens, voicing Remy in the film Ratatouille and playing multiple identical brothers on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth27 January 1969
CityPortsmouth, VA
CountryUnited States of America
reaction
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
hippie gay needs
We need conservatives that can accept gays, and then we need hippies that can shave and bathe.
ducks daffy-duck bugs
I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.
long-ago evil humanity
We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
friday couple home
If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.
kentucky cards corporations
The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.
romance three steel
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
nerd stereotype outcast
I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.
kings couple believe
The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.
mcdonalds people transformation
People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.
airports cynical comedy
I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.
grateful winning years
I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.
shows
You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.