Now I tell my mom, I go, ‘Mom, you know when I was a kid and you told me to turn off the television and go outside and play?’ I’d be like, ‘You literally were hurting my career when you did that. You literally stopped me from doing now, what I do for a living.’ Joel McHale Read Quote
With ‘The Soup,’ obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can’t read the teleprompter properly. Joel McHale Read Quote
When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions. Joel McHale Read Quote
Acting is what I’d always wanted to do; hosting ‘The Soup’ was more because of Greg Kinnear. Joel McHale Read Quote
It’s an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along. Joel McHale Read Quote
E! didn’t like it when we’d make fun of clips from ESPN – they’d be like, ‘That’s sports! That’s not our audience!’ Joel McHale Read Quote
I don’t think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy. Joel McHale Read Quote
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That’s a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame. Joel McHale Read Quote
The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there’s no comedy to be mined out of that. Joel McHale Read Quote
