Quotes About Expression

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

"I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.