Silly Quotes - Page 4

• Joss Whedon writes beautiful drama. His sensitivity and his sense of drama and scenes are pretty exceptional. There's no one else writing like him, really, in sci-fi and TV. That's not to say there are no astonishing writers on TV. I was nervous about coming to America and playing an English person who speaks very English when all the writers are American, because it's a very particular thing to imitate, and if it's badly imitated, it sounds painfully contorted and silly. And he writes very well for English people. It was Joss Whedon who persuaded me.

  Olivia Williams

  Beautiful, Drama, Writing

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't think that people are necessarily going to films simply because they were adapted from comics, though I could be wrong. Comics aren't really misunderstood either, they've just been mostly silly for the past century, and those genre-centered stories have found their way into the movie theaters over the past couple of decades because a generation who grew up reading them has, well, grown up.

  Chris Ware

  Couple, Reading, Past

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Mel Brooks and David Zucker - there are very few people who know silly, and they're usually hugely intelligent, because you have to be intelligent to get it. Like the Marx brothers. I love it.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Brother, Intelligent, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Comedy can be silly and gross and offensive, as long as there's sort of a point. You can make a joke that, on the face of it, is racist. Ostensibly someone can appear to be racist, but if you know you're making a point about race, and not just being pig-headed, then you can do that. I think some people who don't understand comedy will have a knee-jerk reaction to some stuff, and will always be offended by it because they don't understand it. Some people react to it in a vociferous way, which is unsophisticated, but there's always going to be those people out there.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• My wife says, "You're an idiot! Why do you Google your name and all you're doing is looking for trouble?" Because I'm thin-skinned. Because I don't like to be mischaracterized. I just don't. If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond. Now do I sometimes fall in the gutter myself and look silly doing it? Of course. Some battles I win, some battles I lose.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Believe, Fall, Winning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There was always, along the way in my career, as more and more I made marijuana a part of my act and my life, the more I'd hear from people saying, like, well, part of the reason that everybody likes it so much is because of the excitement of it not being legal. I always thought that was silly. Especially when it comes to smoking marijuana. People are certainly not less interested in it now that it's legal. In terms of comedy, it has kind of shifted a little bit in that it seems like the novelty has sort of worn off a little bit.

  Doug Benson

  Marijuana, People, Smoking

  Source: hightimes.com

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• Back in high school, about two years ago, I was in this silly punk band called Ballet for Athletes. We were all trying to take it seriously, and then I realized that "punk" and "serious" aren't really two words you can put in the same sentence - at least, in my opinion.

  Mister Lies

  Athlete, School, Ballet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.

  Greg Mottola

  Song, College, Obsession

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• The thing in comedy is that once you start worrying about something not succeeding, you're frozen. There's no verdict on anything. You can make ¡Three Amigos!, and some people will at the time say, "Oh, that's too silly." Then five years later, silly is hip. Now it's considered art. I never comment on anything I do, because if I say anything negative about X film, or X TV show, or X project, people who saw it and loved it go, "Well, am I an idiot?"

  Martin Short

  Art, People, Worry

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• What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly people who can make laws and have the power to enforce them. I'm often amazed at the conversations black people have about themselves. They ought to be having these conversations about white people. It's white people who are flawed and at fault.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Black, Flawed

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• My dad has a very dry sense of humor and my mom has a more fun, silly sense of humor. My mom is the type that, at the dinner table, you'd look over at and she'd have a piece of asparagus hanging down her nose. Classic mom bit.

  Katie Dippold

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  Malin Akerman

  Self, People, Laughing

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• I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

  David Bailey

  School, Class, Dyslexic

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• It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.

  Alain de Botton

  Beach, Hate, Holiday

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• The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

  George W. Bush

  Science, Power, California

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Stupid, Acting

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• Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Stupid, Happy Life, Fool

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• I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

  Josh Charles

  Fun, Thoughtful, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

  Deepak Chopra

  Struggle, Mean, Trying

  "Get Inspired: Q&A with Deepak Chopra". Interview with Crystal Tate, www.womansday.com. December 11, 2009.

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• Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

  Helena Christensen

  Crazy, Modelling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

  Hillary Clinton

  "Hillary Clinton On What Designers She Wears: 'Would You Ever Ask A Man That Question?'". Interview hosted by KTR Studio in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2010.

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• Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Happy, Wise

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• Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term.

  Gail Collins

  Stuff, Sometimes, Given

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• A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Crazy, Doctors

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• A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Life, Wise

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2009

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