Top 35 Bob Odenkirk Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t say you’re going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.”

— Bob Odenkirk

2. “My daughter got me a ‘World’s Best Dad’ mug. So we know she’s sarcastic.”

— Bob Odenkirk

3. “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.”

— Bob Odenkirk

4. “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.”

— Bob Odenkirk

5. “If you’re ever feeling poorly about yourself, about your lack of achievement, your utter inconsequentiality, your ridiculous little life lived in the shadows – take a moment and write some Internet reviews of other people’s work.”

— Bob Odenkirk

6. “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.”

— Bob Odenkirk

7. “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.”

— Bob Odenkirk

8. “If I had my life to live over again, I would focus on the getting and eating of ice cream.”

— Bob Odenkirk

9. “It’s dangerous to get calm. You need some nerves to work from, it’s good energy. It’s not good to have no nerves. You’d fall asleep on stage.”

— Bob Odenkirk

10. “Comedy is tragedy plus timing.”

— Bob Odenkirk

11. “You say you’re going to be the pope, become the pope.”

— Bob Odenkirk

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

— Bob Odenkirk

13. “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.”

— Bob Odenkirk

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

— Bob Odenkirk

15. “You shouldn’t eat red meat, but you shouldn’t make resolutions you can’t keep.”

— Bob Odenkirk

16. “It’s nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.”

— Bob Odenkirk

17. “The laugh is what trumps everything.”

— Bob Odenkirk

18. “We don’t feel constrained by what we did in the past.”

— Bob Odenkirk

19. “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.”

— Bob Odenkirk

20. “Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.”

— Bob Odenkirk

21. “I’m about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.”

— Bob Odenkirk

22. “The world needs less destruction.”

— Bob Odenkirk

23. “Jesus Christ went by the name Jesus and was only called “Geez” by his closest friends.”

— Bob Odenkirk

24. “I’ve always tried to have a rule that you shouldn’t make fun of innocent people who can’t defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing’s really sacred to me.”

— Bob Odenkirk

25. “Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.”

— Bob Odenkirk

26. “I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.”

— Bob Odenkirk

27. “My goal, whenever entering a project, is always to gain 12 pounds.”

— Bob Odenkirk

28. “The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that’s a cool thing. I don’t think it’s exploded or anything, but I think it’s pretty cool that it still exists, it’s still affecting people.”

— Bob Odenkirk

29. “He laughed aloud, right in my face, at the notion. Here I was, having been farted upon and laughed at all in the space of a few seconds. I felt smaller than a raisin – a small raisin.”

— Bob Odenkirk

30. “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.”

— Bob Odenkirk

31. “It’s fun to discover things. I wouldn’t want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.”

— Bob Odenkirk

32. “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.”

— Bob Odenkirk

33. “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.”

— Bob Odenkirk

34. “I don’t think the sketch on its own is a great sketch.”

— Bob Odenkirk

35. “If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am “somewhat fun.””

— Bob Odenkirk

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

— Bob Odenkirk

37. “I love any scene where there’s a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I’m in show business and I play pretend for a living.”

— Bob Odenkirk

38. “I tried just as hard at the stuff that didn’t work as I did at the stuff that worked.”

— Bob Odenkirk

39. “If you can dream it, you can do it. Not ‘you.’ I mean ‘me.’ I was talking to myself. Did you hear me just now? Forget I said that.” – Walt Disney.”

— Bob Odenkirk