Colin Farrell Quotes

As much as "The Lobster" feels like a world we recognize but not the world we live in, it's all drawn in an allegorical way from all the systems that exist.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks.

In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.

We are making fun of stuff. It is subversive, I think, and in many ways political. It's a reaction against the society we live in, very much so. When we make a commercial for a product that doesn't do anything.

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

I've always found relationships, men and women, the fact that they are so radically different, and it manifests itself in so many different ways, and yet somehow we still try to live together and be friends. I find that endlessly valuable as a source of material for humor. Generally dogs are always funny in my opinion. And the federal government - just a relentlessly productive source of humor.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

I don't know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It's like doing Wag The Dog - we took a thing that was almost completely absurd on one level, and then ultimately those things came about.

Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. And I think that's the reason my act has become more political. I've become somewhat more of a political comic because the level of stupidity I've watched is staggering.