Top 35 Tim Heidecker Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Picture a hot dog bun an-... and throw all the stars, the hundreds of stars that there are in the universe into a pa-... into a ba-ag and put the universe into a bag and you all of a sudden... They become a... Ahm.”

— Tim Heidecker

2. “It’s never fun to read death threats.”

— Tim Heidecker

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3. “We, the comics that we like, we’re all, like, post-humor.”

— Tim Heidecker

4. “Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people’s work and not paying for it. It’s very hard to figure out a way to fix it.”

— Tim Heidecker

5. “I think, you know, I’m German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.”

— Tim Heidecker

6. “There’s a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.”

— Tim Heidecker

7. “At Temple University, and I’m sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.”

— Tim Heidecker

8. “In the world of ‘Tim and Eric,’ everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.”

— Tim Heidecker

9. “When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.”

— Tim Heidecker

10. “When anything doesn’t hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we’re sinking.”

— Tim Heidecker

11. “I don’t have a big hang-up about my body.”

— Tim Heidecker

12. “When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.”

— Tim Heidecker

13. “When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.”

— Tim Heidecker

14. “Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!”

— Tim Heidecker

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15. “I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn’t go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.”

— Tim Heidecker

16. “There’s a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.”

— Tim Heidecker

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17. “I think the great sketch shows, like ‘Python’ and ‘Mr. Show,’ they didn’t stick around for very long. There’s something kind of cool about that.”

— Tim Heidecker

18. “Well, I love Bob Dylan, let’s make that clear. He’s one of my musical heroes.”

— Tim Heidecker

19. “There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.”

— Tim Heidecker

20. “A lot of movies aren’t intended for everybody.”

— Tim Heidecker

21. “I’m a little bit of an amateur political junkie.”

— Tim Heidecker

22. “My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom’s very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.”

— Tim Heidecker

23. “A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, “Sit behind the guitar and play the chords,” just because it’s such a lame image. It’s not rock’n’roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.”

— Tim Heidecker

24. “I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.”

— Tim Heidecker

25. “I’m very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.”

— Tim Heidecker

26. “I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.”

— Tim Heidecker

27. “Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.”

— Tim Heidecker

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28. “On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It’s just not the way we really behave.”

— Tim Heidecker

29. “Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.”

— Tim Heidecker

30. “Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.”

— Tim Heidecker

31. “I sort of fell out of new music. I’m old, I like what I like, and that’s that.”

— Tim Heidecker

32. “Have you ever wondered how to commit human sacrifice and destroy all the evidence while having a delicious meal all at the same time? It’s called cannibalism and all it means is eating another human being. It’s not that hard.”

— Tim Heidecker

33. “I’m always in situations where you can’t be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.”

— Tim Heidecker

34. “There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.”

— Tim Heidecker

35. “The scariest thing about screening a comedy if you screen a drama, you know, there’s no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it’s like, if people aren’t laughing, it’s sort of scary.”

— Tim Heidecker

36. “I think there’s a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.”

— Tim Heidecker

37. “I always liked records that didn’t explain themselves too well – ones that you had to listen a few times.”

— Tim Heidecker

38. “Dads are awkward because they’re older guys who aren’t cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.”

— Tim Heidecker

39. “Most of my ideas just come out funny.”

— Tim Heidecker