42 Eric Andre Quotes On Success In Life

Eric Samuel Andre is an American stand-up comedian, actor, television host, writer, and producer. He is best known as the creator, host, and co-writer of the Adult Swim comedy series The Eric Andre Show (2012–present). He also played Mike on the FXX series Man Seeking Woman (2015–2017) and voiced Azizi in the remake of The Lion King (2019). He performs music under the name Blarf. These Eric Andre quotes will motivate you.

Best Eric Andre Quotes

1. “I’m a lurker and a creep. Women don’t like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.” ~ Eric Andre
2. “I’m insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don’t feel complete.” ~ Eric Andre
3. “I’m an elderly Jewish lesbian trapped in a 33-year-old nerd’s body.” ~ Eric Andre
4. “A hole is a hole has always been my motto.” ~ Eric Andre

5. “I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.” ~ Eric Andre

6. “I can’t tell if the world is worse now or if we just have more cameras. There are cameras everywhere, so now the world knows how bad the world is.” ~ Eric Andre
7. “I think everyone is bi, right? There’s no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.” ~ Eric Andre
8. “I think we give human beings too much credit. We’re primates, you know.” ~ Eric Andre

9. “I’m an Aries. I need everybody to like me.” ~ Eric Andre

10. “Do you think we’re going to hit a tipping point and the world’s going to end?” ~ Eric Andre
11. “I’m not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.” ~ Eric Andre
12. “The president is the country’s scapegoat more than the country’s leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.” ~ Eric Andre
13. “Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don’t know exactly what I was thinking before that.” ~ Eric Andre , Eric Andre quotes on The Simpsons
14. “Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn’t really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It’s like, “I get it! I’m already bored. I did like the joke, but I don’t anymore, because you went on too long.”” ~ Eric Andre

15. “I care a lot; I’m very sensitive.” ~ Eric Andre

16. “Let’s hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.” ~ Eric Andre
17. “When I’m watching South Park I don’t think it’s written by neo-Nazis. They know exactly what they’re doing.” ~ Eric Andre
18. “All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it’s wrong; if it’s an attempt to cope with or make sense of tragedy, it’s something different. If it’s commenting on society’s flaws, versus adding to society’s flaws, I think the audience can tell.” ~ Eric Andre
19. “Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn’t know comedy could do that.” ~ Eric Andre

20. “You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else’s.” ~ Eric Andre

21. “I feel like we put all the weight on the president, rather than distributing the weight to all of the elected officials.” ~ Eric Andre
22. “You can’t really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.” ~ Eric Andre
23. “I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like ‘to the back of the auditorium, to the back of the auditorium’ and the liquid “u.” ‘The payment is duuue on Tuuuesday.’ I also learned how to fence. If anything, when I moved to Los Angeles, I didn’t fit in, in any way. I had to do comedy, because I was talking so pretentiously.” ~ Eric Andre

24. “If the crowd is full of assholes, it’s no fun. If the crowd is cool, it’s great.” ~ Eric Andre

25. “I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.” ~ Eric Andre
26. “Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.” ~ Eric Andre
27. “Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the joke is, it’s time to move on.” ~ Eric Andre
28. “I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind – there weren’t a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial – the fact that they said “hell” and “damn” in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.” ~ Eric Andre

29. “How many n-bombs are dropped? It depends on what I post.” ~ Eric Andre

30. “Bill Cosby spoke out against The Simpsons and there was this kind of evangelical, right-wing sect that was against The Simpsons. Fox was a new network at the time, though, so they were going to take risks.” ~ Eric Andre
31. “I do think homophobia in the ’80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.” ~ Eric Andre
32. “Comedy is often about pain.” ~ Eric Andre , Eric Andre quotes on comdey
33. “I think if the joke is in good taste – it’s a good joke.” ~ Eric Andre
34. “I don’t think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.” ~ Eric Andre
35. “There’s two sides to the coin. I think I’m much happier that [Barack] Obama won over John McCain or Mitt Romney, because I think Obama did something culturally for the country.” ~ Eric Andre

36. “I think that we put too much weight on who the president is.” ~ Eric Andre

37. “[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.” ~ Eric Andre
38. “They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.” ~ Eric Andre
39. “If there’s an intelligence behind the joke – – it’s a good joke.” ~ Eric Andre
40. “You see a lot of sketch variety shows where each segment is one joke that they repeat over and over and over again, and the sketches are always three or four minutes too long.” ~ Eric Andre
41. “I have done some formal acting training because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I’m still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.” ~ Eric Andre
42. “The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the ’80s.” ~ Eric Andre