When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another. Larry Wilmore More Quotes by Larry Wilmore More Quotes From Larry Wilmore During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was hiring a different kind of brother, you know, and I was doing political humor... In order for me to really have a long career, I'm going to have to learn how to write and produce for myself... I had no idea I was really going to like it and I'm very fortunate to be successful. But the idea was to always eventually create something for myself. That was the idea from the beginning when I went into writing and producing. Larry Wilmore brother successful writing I started as a standup comic and an actor. Larry Wilmore comic actors We, Catholics, share many of the moral guidelines of Mormons, the difference is you guys take it seriously. When the church says something we don't agree with we say, "Oh don't be so crazy." We just laugh it off. Larry Wilmore differences crazy laughing I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy? Larry Wilmore sunday mean jesus I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz. I say, "Well, have you taken any courses? You can't just have a passion for it; you have to prepare yourself for a life of it." Larry Wilmore passion taken people I remember we had a visit by a helicopter at our school when I was in grade school, and I was punished that day and didn't get to see it. To this day, I am so mad I never got to see that helicopter land! I took my first ride in a helicopter recently, and that's what I thought, "Yes, finally the circle is complete!" Larry Wilmore circles land school A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically. Larry Wilmore stakes magic people There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger. Larry Wilmore sides I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever. Larry Wilmore tvs different ideas There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak. Larry Wilmore magic speak When you work in television you're in the writer's room all the time. You can't take 10 days or a week to go watch movies. Nobody's going to sign up for that. But it's something I had always thought if I was every asked I would definitely do it if I had the time to do it. Larry Wilmore watches television rooms You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you. Larry Wilmore energy goes-on dark It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know? Larry Wilmore personal-transformation spiritual world Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown. Larry Wilmore known people It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else. Larry Wilmore discovery people years When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things. Larry Wilmore be-good appreciated eye I just want to Thank Comedy Central for this rare opportunity, and it really is a rare opportunity. Larry Wilmore entertainment I'll definitely bring up race, that's going to be an issue in a lot of different ways. Larry Wilmore top-news I would do a tour as a soldier, whether or not it has to do with my show or not. That's just how I feel about it. Larry Wilmore entertainment Really, folks. How many more do we need? let's understand this number, OK? That's like if Bill Cosby drugged and raped every single U.S. President from George Washington to John F. Kennedy. Larry Wilmore entertainment
