Slapstick Quotes

• A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

  John Ratzenberger

  Humor, Farce, Doe

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• I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

  Anjelica Huston

  Humor, Bigs, Gentle

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• Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Fun, Comedy, Tricks

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• Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

  Tina Weymouth

  Order, Perception, Want

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• History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  History, Lists, Surprise

  "Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 48), 1976.

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• Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.

  T. E. D. Klein

  World, Unexpected, Chill

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• Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism.

  Walter Benjamin

  Attitude, Mean, Giving

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• Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Common Decency, Littles, Please

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• I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Philosopher, Contradiction

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, Kind, Easy

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Summer, Wall

  "The mighty clowns" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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• I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Google, Way

  Source: www.mixedmartialarts.com

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• Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.

  John D. MacDonald

  Journey, Animal, People

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• I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.

  Lance Henriksen

  New York, Office, Way

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

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• I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just this crazy and get naked and run through the thing screaming. That's just not my style; my style is drama or - I'm not slapstick.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Running, Crazy, Drama

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

  John Mortimer

  Running, Laughing, Dying

  John Mortimer (2000). “The Summer of a Dormouse”

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• I thought the other ones were so obviously - what are we going to do if she burns down the house? The DEA, which I think was maybe the best one because she's wearing the jacket when she goes through the mirror and I think that was kind of amazing because you really weren't expecting that. There's something almost slapstick about this in a way that worried me. It was a little pratfalley with the golf club and the - but I think it probably cut together okay.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Golf, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight babies at once, it's amazing... And I know, it's horrible to have your money stolen and all that, but those are amazing stories.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Baby, Thinking, Eight

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

  Eddie Izzard

  People, Rubbish, British

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• I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Comedy, Tomorrow

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moving, Fall, Sound

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• Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

  John Mortimer

  Running, Children, Party

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• Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Growing Up, Littles, Fans

  "Jaimie Alexander Talks THE LAST STAND, Training for the Role, Performing Her Own Stunts and THOR: THE DARK WORLD". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Love Is, Thinking

  "Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Prologue), 1976.

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• I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Breakup, Fighting

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.2, Random House

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