Satire Quotes - Page 6

• Okay well - no that is a very real thing seven-year-olds asking for BlackBerrys and cell phones and things like that. And that's one of the things I love most about the show [The Starter Wife] is the social satire.

  Debra Messing

  Real, Phones, Cells

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.

  Chris Rock

  Beats

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• I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.

  Stephen Colbert

  Character, Boxing, Feelings

  "The man in the irony mask". Interview with Seth Mnookin, www.vanityfair.com. October, 2007.

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• Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

  Bill Cosby

  Unique, Misunderstood, Use

  "Bill Cosby sounds like less of a prude now" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2007.

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• In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by thehuman voice,--take the sound of a bugle in a summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speak without satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts in their native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I can understand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I love Starship Troopers. That's really smart. I think he really could portray fascism in a comedic way. It's funny because both José [Padilha] and [Paul] Verhoeven were accused of being fascists for their movies because they had fascist leads. So, it's not going to have his tone, but there's going to be political satire in it.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Smart, Thinking, Political

  Source: collider.com

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• Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sex, Dirty, Fiction

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• Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.

  George Michael

  Believe, Thinking, Speak Your Mind

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• A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

  Madame Roland

  Mind, Amusement, Killing

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• The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

  Laurence Housman

  Littles, Modern, Social

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• THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money - that crazy-making business - to examine a whole range of subjects.

  Craig Lucas

  Crazy, Real, Play

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• The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Real, Writing

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Debt, Pay

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• Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.30, North Atlantic Books

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• Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

  Herb Caen

  Self, Tactics, Shock

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• What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

  Justin Simien

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

  Kevin Kline

  Real, Believe, Character

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• If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Depressing, Writing, Hands

  "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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• I like to write a lot of satire.

  Earl King

  Writing

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• I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

  Zack Snyder

  Believe, Character, Reality

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• I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

  David Shrigley

  Elements, Want, Ridiculous

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing and shaming and calling the villains what they are. Usually it was the artistocracy of the day and satire was the only way to speak truth to power.

  John Cusack

  Long, People, Feel Good

  "Talking With John Cusack". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.

  John Cusack

  Media, Black, Intellectual

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

  Alice Cooper

  Python, Beats, Stills

  Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2003.

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• It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Sarcasm, Mind

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 157, 1799.

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