38 Quotes By - Brad Hall

38 Quotes By - Brad Halle

My first performance was as one of the orphans in 'Oliver!'

— Brad Hall

When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.

— Brad Hall

It's nice to be able to sit down and have a discussion about something for more than four minutes, and not look at your watch and go, 'Oh my God, I just spent $40,000 of HBO's money.'

— Brad Hall

You have to run, an awful lot, on instinct. Even on 'Veep,' it's not like you get weeks of rehearsal to break out what's going on in the scenes.

— Brad Hall

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

— Brad Hall

Julia is one of the most loyal people who ever lived. Her best friend is her best friend from third grade, and her other best friends are her best friends from Northwestern. Once you're a pal, you're a pal for life with Jules. I'm not just flattering her because she's my wife.

— Brad Hall

The truth of the matter is that it's not much less work to do a short than it is to do a feature. Particularly when you're running around different countries.

— Brad Hall

I could have been a mediocre tap dancer.

— Brad Hall

If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.

— Brad Hall

I don't have a lot of lifetime regrets, and very few show business regrets, surely.

— Brad Hall

I like the compressed nature of the story telling.

— Brad Hall

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

— Brad Hall

I can do a Green Day joke and people actually get it.

— Brad Hall

Audiences want to see people break rules for love, to challenge the fates for love.

— Brad Hall

Hugh Grant is really the perfect actor for romantic comedies. Anything he does is invariably charming.

— Brad Hall

Audiences know the form in their bones, they know that romantic comedies end in an uplifting way.

— Brad Hall

In New York you can actually run into people on the street, unlike in California where you're always in the car.

— Brad Hall

In New York you go to the coffee shop, have a bagel, walk down the street, get hassled, run into someone else. People just waltz into your world and it's believable.

— Brad Hall

People are a lot more tolerant when they're home watching TV and they're looking for a laugh.

— Brad Hall

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.

— Brad Hall

If you're on Thursday night at 8:30, because the history of that time slot has been so disastrous, there's a hell of a lot of numbers pressure.

— Brad Hall

I think the fact that I'm married to Julia, people like to take shots at me.

— Brad Hall

The casualness with which people say hello to Julia on the street is hilarious to me.

— Brad Hall

I've had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.

— Brad Hall

No one remembers this because it's the whipping boy, but 'The Single Guy' was very well-reviewed and watched, and then the central concept became attacked by the very people who were putting it on. And then the next thing you know you're running in fear, and everyone stops being funny.

— Brad Hall

I mean, if you look at all the great romantic screwbally kind of movies from the '30s and '40s, they're all in New York. Even 'Sleepless in Seattle,' a movie about Seattle, ends up in New York, of course. The whole country, even if they've never been to New York, knows about it... from the movies.

— Brad Hall

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.

— Brad Hall

It's a really special skill to be able to pick up a phone the way that a human picks up a phone. It's not as easy as you think.

— Brad Hall

I was very, very happy in Chicago as an actor making $168 a week.

— Brad Hall

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have an unbelievably beautiful, well-known wife. And the people who criticize me don't.

— Brad Hall

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

— Brad Hall

Marjorie Luke was funny and huge, or at least I remember her that way.

— Brad Hall

The theater was the place where I felt my first crush, and it's where I got my first kiss.

— Brad Hall

Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there's a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.

— Brad Hall

'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the Practical theater. I believe in it wholeheartedly and will do it the rest of my life. But there's also legitimate theater, be it comedy, drama, classics or modern plays which I think is important and something I want to be involved in too.

— Brad Hall

It all depends what you look like. If you look like hell and walk down the street, they think you're just another bum. If you're being cool, you TV people don't get recognized. But if you're going to sign autographs and records, then you'll have some trouble.

— Brad Hall

New York is just such a perfect place for romance.

— Brad Hall

There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There's this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.

— Brad Hall

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