Julia Davis Quotes

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

I really like Braun Strowman. I would turn the volume down on him just a little bit. I think he is a little bit overly animated, and he doesn't have to be. He is already a larger than life character when he wakes up and has a cup of coffee.

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

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

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

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.

I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

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.

Never a man to understate matters

I'm prone to hyperbole.

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

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level. They're not based on anyone I've ever met, but they are these extreme versions of something.

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

There are a lot of people who are considered 'camp' who have no idea how ridiculous they are.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Sometimes '24' can seem a little grand. Sometimes these things can seem a little outlandish.