If you live with a certain amount of dread for your own personal safety every day, that is anxiety. Baron Vaughn More Quotes by Baron Vaughn More Quotes From Baron Vaughn Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don't like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I'm going to get punched, I'm going to get elbowed, I'm going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone's going to hit me with their body odor or something. Baron Vaughn odor tickets body You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we make the entire continent of Africa look like the size of the United States, which is why a lot of people don't know that Africa is a continent. They think it's a country because it looks as big as we do. Baron Vaughn two country thinking One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting. Baron Vaughn one-time meetings The thing is that where I want to go isn't necessarily tied to what's going on there politically, but I think Vietnam is a really beautiful country. I think Thailand is also really beautiful. Baron Vaughn beautiful country thinking The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there. Baron Vaughn gorgeous middle-east want The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place. Baron Vaughn cool-places alphabet iraq I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood. Baron Vaughn childhood different kind [Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are. Baron Vaughn fit memories believe You're the hero of your own story. So it's interesting for historical revisionism to happen. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It's really easy to be like "This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me." These are such powerful ideas and it's so easy to hold onto them forever. Baron Vaughn powerful hero letting-go I am afraid of abandonment, and, if you will, in a really existential way, being exposed as a fraud. Everyone's afraid of it, and I definitely am. This is a fear that motivates. Oh, and heights. And getting stabbed. Baron Vaughn height existential way I like being around people who are good conversationalists. When there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world. I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, where everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world. Baron Vaughn party people ideas I am a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He's the voice of science and scientific thinking in the United States and the world. He's the most visible proponent of scientific thinking, and he's very unflinching about it. He knows that it's correct and vouches for it in a very intelligent and very firm way, which I really appreciate. Baron Vaughn voice intelligent thinking Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever. Baron Vaughn eye heart song Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work. Baron Vaughn lilies character people Lily Tomlin...I used to watch reruns of Laugh-In and she was always my favorite part. She's this very unique talent and the way she does things has been a very big influence on me. Baron Vaughn unique doe laughing I'm working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I've looked up to from a very young age. Baron Vaughn legends age people I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said there's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds. Baron Vaughn reading journey book I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here. Baron Vaughn want laughing mean Sometimes you're not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn't mean it's not funny. It means you haven't explored it enough. Baron Vaughn want laughing mean The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say. Baron Vaughn boss audience thinking
