Martin Landau Quotes

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

I am a walking joke.

'Taskmaster' taps into a universal humour of people making a fool of themselves.

I used to do standup about footballers; they are easy targets because they are traditionally seen as stupid.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I don't mind being a buffoon.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm an idiot, aren't we all a bit like this, laugh at me.' Whereas, a lot of other comedians are saying: 'Aren't I clever? You want to be me, aren't I cool? Revere me.' Which is fine. But that's not my bag.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

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

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.