Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

I have a very sardonic view of life.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.

Existing outside of irony is so hard.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

My generation has a hard time being genuine and enthusiastic. There's a lot of irony in our culture.

It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.