Bob Odenkirk

They will have a tattoo from one of my shows.

They will love me a lot.

And then everyone else in the room will not know me at all.

And I can just be myself.

And then with Breaking Bad, then you get into a level of

Now I'm in an elevator at the mall and everyone in this elevator knows who I am.

But the difference between how they know me is wildly varied.

You know, one of those people knows how I look at the world.

The person who's watched Mr. Show, they know how I see the world.

The person who knows Better Call Saul, that's just not

not even close, they don't know me.

They know this character I played that is not me at all.

And yet I appreciate that they like that work and that they know me and I'm thankful and yeah.

So I think when you ask about that, the question, part of the question is, is there a choice?

Do you get to see...

this thing coming your way, and do you get to choose, I'm going to go ahead and be more famous, and then I'm going to live in a world where there's a little bit of discordancy between who I am and how I'm known.

I get why people go, no, thank you.

I'm going to stay in my littler world where when you know me, I know how you know me.

And that means something to me that I'm okay with.

I don't know if this whole chapter of our interview is weird.