Taylor Sheridan Quotes

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.

I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

My audience expects me to push the limits, to be politically incorrect. I do that because for me, that's the only place where the fun is, when I get to push the boundaries and make people laugh at things that they probably didn't want to laugh at.

My whole intention is to break down these limitations of what a black comedian is supposed to be and to open up a space.

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.

What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out...