Terry Pratchett Quotes

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

I love comedy, so you want to make them happy, make them laugh.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

I'd love to do a really broad comedy at some point.

I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.

I can only parody stuff I love.

I always knew about comedy; I always loved comedy.

Most of what I write is comedy.

I was open to anything, but comedy was what I really loved.