Tim Heidecker

Tim Heidecker

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Since 1976, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter Tim Heidecker has given the world some of its most quotable lines. Tim Heidecker's observations on Movies are as sharp as their thoughts on Funny, revealing genuine breadth of mind. 13 of Tim Heidecker's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Movies, Funny, Religion, Mom, and Dad. Readers often gravitate to this one: "I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee."

“There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.”

— Tim Heidecker

Religion

All Quotes by Tim Heidecker

“There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.”

— Tim Heidecker

Religion

“My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.”

— Tim Heidecker

Dad

“If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.”

— Tim Heidecker

Movies

“I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.”

— Tim Heidecker

Funny

“A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.”

— Tim Heidecker

Movies

“I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.”

— Tim Heidecker

Movies

“Most of my ideas just come out funny.”

— Tim Heidecker

Funny

“On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.”

— Tim Heidecker

Movies

“I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'”

— Tim Heidecker

Movies

“I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.”

— Tim Heidecker

Cool

“There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.”

— Tim Heidecker

Funny

“Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.”

— Tim Heidecker

Funny