Richard Ayoade Quotes

Things I say are sometimes silly.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

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.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

I had this website that, at one point, I listed myself as 'actor, writer, comedian, and fart enthusiast' just because I thought that would be a really clear joke.

I don't take myself seriously, because I'm obviously ludicrous.

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

Cars are good for entrances and exits. And there is something about driving that is quite cliched in a funny way. I like Roy Orbison's video for I Drove All Night because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

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 love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!

… the most superlatively ridiculous thing

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.