David Bailey Quotes

I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

I can be sarcastic.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

I don't fancy myself as a very sarcastic person in real life.

I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.