Simon Pegg Quotes

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour

I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.

The most important thing is to focus, focus, focus.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.