Marc Maron
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I knew that I wanted to be a creative person.
I was and am a creative person.
And when I was younger, I remember I was in 10th grade.
I was in an English class.
And we were studying poetry and the teacher asked us to write a poem.
And I wrote this very weird, heartfelt, sad poem about, you know, not knowing how to talk to girls, not being a jock, not, you know, having any experience with relationship.
It was just a very it was too much.
And I remember reading it, and the class was just mortified.
And the teacher was like, oh, well, okay, Mark, thank you.
That was very interesting.
I just put too much of my heart out there, and it alienated me more.
But I spoke in honesty in that moment, and the feeling of doing that was horrendous.
So I continued to do it my entire life.
And when I got into college, look, I tried to pursue poetry.
I did photography.
I was always trying to put myself out there in an attempt to become sort of a whole person.
So if I thought if I could be seen and I could show myself that somehow or another I would come together.
And that's why I chose comedy for some reason.
It was because I could put myself out there.