Paul Morrissey Quotes

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.

I tend to do stuff that is in some way tongue in cheek or humorous or has a kind of wry side to it.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

Kolkata does not look like a Delhi or Mumbai. The city has its identity.

When people come to see you, they know what you do. That's what they want. They want it to be quite English; they don't want to watch an English bloke trying to fit in. They want it to be quintessentially English in the way that Ricky Gervais is rude to people at the Golden Globes.

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!

How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down - we just need to start an advertising campaign. We need to call it, 'Gitmo, the Muslim resort.' Any resort that treated people like this would have ads all over the 'New York Times' trying to get people to come down and visit for some R&R, for some rest and relaxation.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: 'Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.' The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.