Phyllis Diller Quotes

I have really heavy muscle.

I love when people overexaggerate. It's so funny to me.

The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.

There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.

I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.

The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

This whole thing has become a pantomime.

You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

I've always liked outrageous comedy and pushing the envelope.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

I wasn't a 97-pound weakling. I was an 80-pound weakling.

If a wig is funny when it's two feet tall, why not make it three feet tall? Or ten?

Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

If you're going to be ridiculous, be over-the-top ridiculous.