Tim Meadows Quotations

In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

You get a lot of Johnnie Cochran roles. Those kind of things fall to you naturally because of the color of your skin. You have to give them what they want. Yeah, I was a black actor on the show and Johnnie Cochran came, but I had to learn how to do Johnnie Cochran, make it funny.

Once you had Del say that you were good, you were good. To be able to make him laugh or impress him . . . once you got his respect, you were home free.

This is by far one of our biggest arrests.

For a while after the ugliness of the OJ Trial I liked doing him. That became fun to do because instead of OJ being smart and disappearing he wouldn't leave. So he put himself up to be ridiculed.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.