Thomas Haden Church Quotes

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge.

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

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.

The Rock was one of my favourite comedy characters growing up, and I still think he is. Mainly because he took himself so seriously by being ridiculous and a buffoon all the time but always took the high status.

In a satire, you need foolishness.