Tim Meadows Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Learning lines is my biggest challenge.”

“Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.”

“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.”

“I was not funny growing up.”

“I was really shy as a kid.”

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

“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.”