You can shoot a show and have it not air. It's not real until it's airing. Adam DeVine More Quotes by Adam DeVine More Quotes From Adam DeVine The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last. Adam DeVine uncles honesty mother What's cool about renting is that you don't care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number-one thing. Just going "Sure, you can jump off the roof. I think that's safe! Let's just paint on the walls! I bet the beer bottle will break before it shatters the window!" Not caring about the environment is a plus. And a ton of booze. And underage kids. That just ups the excitement value of the party, like, "Oh my God, we could all go to prison." Adam DeVine wall party kids If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show. Adam DeVine tv-shows comedian hate Jealousy is the worst trait in any person. Adam DeVine traits worst persons That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college. Adam DeVine doctors college dream We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same. When you go out with your crew of friends and you get into trouble, at the end of the night when you come home, you're still the same crew of friends. It's just the story that you have to tell. Adam DeVine stories home night A funny thing is that you can't search me on Twitter because Adam Levine dominates there. Adam DeVine adam funny-things Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome. Adam DeVine rome smart president The thing about singing is that if you're having fun while doing it then people will have fun watching you do it. Like in karaoke if you're like "I don't think I can do it" and then you sing a song and you look terrified people will say, "Poor guy or poor girl, get offstage. You're killing us." But if you get onstage and you don't sing that well but you give it your all, people will be like, "Yeah, I'll chug beer to this!". Adam DeVine girl song fun In high school I was worried about singing in a choir not being a cool thing, like "I want girls to like me so I don't want to do something that's not cool." But, in fact, if you do something you like to do and you're good at it, you're going to find someone who will like you for that reason. Adam DeVine singing girl school It's really about committing super-hard to whatever you're trying to create. In essence, I'm just copying my favorite comedic actors, and it's the people who make me laugh the hardest who commit the hardest. Adam DeVine trying laughing people I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be. Adam DeVine my-family moving thinking Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is best for them. Luckily, I come from both a writing background - with 'Workaholics' - and I also act in what I've written. Adam DeVine comedy writing People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time. Adam DeVine likes want people My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out. Adam DeVine parents cool chill want I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer. Adam DeVine me you crazy art My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.' Adam DeVine best me time world When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands. Adam DeVine better bad me dad Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble. Adam DeVine you consistency trouble tree I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get. Adam DeVine weird loved thought cool
