Bret McKenzie Quotes

“My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.”

“They drew their net to shore, and there was a fire of coals, and fish laid thereon, another fish. When they had enough, one that was better than all was added. Have you not sometimes wished that you could have had that hundred and fifty-fourth fish? This was Christ's way all the while, and is His way still. He fills the net as full as it will hold, that our life may be sustained, and then He adds more, that His love may be gratified, and that which He adds is the "royal bounty.”

“If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?”

“You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)”

“I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.”

“Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal”

“McKenzie was Caroline's primary wingman. They had matching Coach bags to prove it.”

“In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.”

“A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now.”

“You should never turn down the offer of another man’s story,’ the fox persisted, moving off a little further into the trees ahead. ‘Stories are the only thing that separates us from the animals after all.”