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Top 30 Thomas Lennon Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Lennon Quote: “People love that monkey torture.”

1. “People love that monkey torture.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.”

2. “Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.”

3. “The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.”

4. “Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Don’t write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.”

5. “Don’t write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.”

6. “Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.”

7. “The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “It’s such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.”

8. “It’s such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “I’m always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.”

9. “I’m always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that’s based on what’s happening at the time that’s not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.”

10. “I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that’s based on what’s happening at the time that’s not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they’re all theoretical.”

11. “Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they’re all theoretical.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “When you do a movie in the studio system, there’s a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There’s two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.”

12. “When you do a movie in the studio system, there’s a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There’s two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You’ve got to do crunches all day long. You’ve got to get up and learn lines.”

13. “Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You’ve got to do crunches all day long. You’ve got to get up and learn lines.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “The good thing about being a writer is that you don’t need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you’re not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it’s probably not a business for you anyway.”

14. “The good thing about being a writer is that you don’t need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you’re not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it’s probably not a business for you anyway.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “If you just want to be a writer, I don’t care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It’s super important.”

15. “If you just want to be a writer, I don’t care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It’s super important.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio’s marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?”

16. “Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio’s marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that’s what happens.”

17. “Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that’s what happens.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “I feel like I’m the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I’m sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.”

18. “I feel like I’m the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I’m sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it’s not my fault.”

19. “The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it’s not my fault.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “The more people’s money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.”

20. “The more people’s money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “If you’re a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.”

21. “If you’re a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that’s it.”

22. “All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that’s it.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you’ve done.”

23. “You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you’ve done.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we’re more Salieri than Mozart.”

24. “I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we’re more Salieri than Mozart.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “I don’t think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.”

25. “I don’t think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks.”

26. “The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “That’s the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That’s one thing that’s so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.”

27. “That’s the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That’s one thing that’s so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Being a working person who works for the studios. It’s a minefield and there’s tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.”

28. “Being a working person who works for the studios. It’s a minefield and there’s tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.”

29. “Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.”

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Thomas Lennon Quote: “I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn’t really occurred to me as a viable job – I didn’t really know anything about it.”

30. “I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn’t really occurred to me as a viable job – I didn’t really know anything about it.”

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