Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rory Bremner

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

Rory Bremner

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

Ben Elton

Most of my work isn't directly autobiographical. It tends to be an amalgam of things I've seen and heard and thought and conversations I've had.

Jennifer Saunders

Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.

Eric Morecambe

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

Simon Pegg

Because once the word got out that we were making Shaun of the Dead, we didn't want people to think we were backtracking or changing our minds.

Tracey Ullman

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.

Dawn French

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

Dawn French

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.

Alan Moore

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

Alan Moore

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

John Hitchcock

When I was a kid, there were no comic shops anywhere. I used to walk all over downtown Greensboro with the money from my paper route, going from the newsstands to the drugstores and hotels, looking for comics. I used to dream that just around the next corner I would find a store that sold nothing but comics.

John Hitchcock

When I was a kid, there were no comic shops anywhere, ... I used to walk all over downtown Greensboro with the money from my paper route, going from the newsstands to the drugstores and hotels, looking for comics. I used to dream that just around the next corner I would find a store that sold nothing but comics.

Lucien Smith

I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so I started using that color.

Lee Bermejo

I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.

Louis C. K.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

Kenneth Choi

Comic fans are some of the toughest fans to please, and I'm one of them.

Meghan Ory

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

Mike McCue

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

Dirk Benedict

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

Coco Chanel

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

Anastasia Griffith

I feel like you can do all the research in the world, but when you start putting that costume on, put your hair in a wig and walk into those sets, that's where the visceral reaction is. It's no longer in the head. It's in the body.

Kelsey Chow

I love mixing prints. The costume designer for 'Pair of Kings' and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character 'Mikayla.'

Lee Warren

He (Holbrook) said he has one of the first Mark Twain costumes he wore on stage and was saving it until The Smithsonian called. We said we could find a place for it until they do.

Siri Hustvedt

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

Michael Mann

Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.

F. Stone

We knew they had trouble shooting from the outside. We had several reports about that. We decided just to go to the zone and see what happens.

Dave Griffin

We know he's got power. Sometimes, you don't know what you're going to get. I decided to give him a start to see what he does. We tell the kids they've got to be ready when they get the call.

Chris Hoffman

Ultimately, we decided to go in a different direction.

Brian Neary

Ultimately, the jury decides how much weight to give to the testimony.

William Patterson

Until developers decide what they really want to do in Franklin and until some of the property gets purchased, (enrollment is) very iffy.

Rob Walton

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

Navtej Sarna

We've also decided to permit relief material being sent by private organizations and international (charities) to Pakistan.

Doug Jackson

We still need to decide what we can afford. Where do we draw the line?

Al Yankovic

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Bruce McCall

You can parody almost anything.

Ted Rall

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

Leonard Cohen

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.