Gags Quotes - Page 3

• Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?

  Rick Riordan

  Romance, Ears, Radio

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• Step 4: Cough and gag. Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore. Step 6: Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner.

  Ally Carter

  Cute, Boys, Trying

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

  Noel Fielding

  Mean, Way, Tiny

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• I beg your pardon. I’m not gross. (Simone) Grody to the max. Gag me with a spoon. I’ve seen you in the mornings. You’re not exactly well coiffed. (Jesse)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Morning, Max, Spoons

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• Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Creativity, Cake

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• If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

  Steve Coogan

  Character, Play, Laughing

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

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• In the end, everything is a gag.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Laughter, Powerful, Humor

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• Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

  Ken Dodd

  Monsters, Television, Eating

  "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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• In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director.

  Vincent Canby

  Stars, Opportunity, Greatness

  The New York Times, July 17, 1983.

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• The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was the quarter from behind the ear gag. He would never put the time in.

  Gary Gulman

  Devil, Ears, Quarters

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• It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

  Frank Caliendo

  Simple, Two, People

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• Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Hands, Wings

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• A lot of the content that goes directly to the internet, or is web-created content, is very hand-held video where you can watch this woman fall off the coffee table, or see a funny little gag, or is interview-style stuff, which is great. I love that. I consume it like crazy. But, this is designed to be reminiscent of what you would see during primetime, and reminiscent of what you would see in a movie theater, on any given weekend, and in that regard, it's brand new.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Crazy, Fall, Coffee

  Source: collider.com

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• When you watch an audience watching my movies, you realize that nobody laughs at the same time. Some people enjoy a beat, and then another group of people are laughing at a sight gag, and then someone laughs where nobody laughs before. They're not timed like a comedy. You're not supposed to laugh at every joke. You decide.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Sight, Laughing, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Tell me why it is that a toddler will gag over a perfectly wonderful breakfast of ham, eggs, biscuits, juice, and jelly. But then he will enthusiastically drink the dog's water and play in the toilet. Truly, he is his mother's greatest challenge...; and her most inexpressible joy.

  James Dobson

  Mother, Dog, Play

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• I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

  Bill Mauldin

  Mean, Army, Men

  "Up Front". Book by Bill Mauldin, 1945.

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• Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

  Horace Walpole

  Distance, Heart, Voice

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• One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.

  Bruno Heller

  Running, Fun, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things together, and my wife just had a slip of the tongue and said, "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life" when she meant to say "Frank Capra's." There it is right there. That's a gag that we could make into something.

  Peter Capaldi

  Writing, Wife, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to their patients about family planning. And we certainly see it now with an effort by the government to tap our phones; invade our medical records, credit information, library records and the most sensitive personal information in the name of national security.

  Dick Durbin

  Names, Doctors, Phones

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Often Is, Comedian

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

  Will Rogers

  Long, Rumor, May

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

  Eyedea

  Kentucky, Order, Here And There

  Source: kandisknightpr.blogspot.com

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• [Abdellatif Laâbi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government was determined to "gag" him - I use the term specifically since one of my favorite sequences of his is entitled "The Poem Beneath The Gag."

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Teacher, School, Government

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Almost everything is in the movie [The Hangover]. I think the fun little Easter eggs on the DVD will be sort of the gag reel stuff. There's a lot of takes we just couldn't get through.We were laughing.

  Ed Helms

  Easter, Fun, Hangover

  Source: movies.about.com

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