Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Rash
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Jim Rash.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That is where you work all the pieces out, and that means honing the characters' voices, setting that tone, finding your angle.
Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.
When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.
My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn to the balance between comedy and drama. I like things that sort of toe that line of one minute you're in this emotional space and then all of the sudden something happens.
We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.
I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.
If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.
Nobody is completely perfect.
My family was perfect.
I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.
As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.
I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.
There are writers' rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone's process can be a little bit malleable. Everyone tries to get into a groove or find what works for their room.
You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.
Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
People are vocal, so you hear the pros and cons of your shows.
I think what's cool about a body-switching movie is, 'The grass is always greener:' the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.
I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.
Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.
I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what's happening around them. I'm sure they're scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and all these places that allow people to watch shows in chunks.
I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all.
On the personal level, the people that follow you on Twitter are always nice to hear from.
Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.
There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.
With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?
I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.
I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.
If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.
I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.
The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.
A sketch is just a mini movie.
Can you imagine watching 'All in the Family' and having an outlet like Twitter? Where you could discuss it while it's happening? I think that would be a really interesting thing.
When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.
I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'
Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.
As long as a teaser saves some things, that's good.
Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.
I loved 'Lost,' from beginning to end.
The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.
I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.
Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
There's always something exciting about small change.
Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.
Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'
For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end.
With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.
In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.
The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.
I watch too much TV.
For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.
On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.
'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.
I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.
I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.
If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.
I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.
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