Rick Riordan Quotes

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

Anyone who takes themselves very seriously, or is in any way pompous, or thinks of themselves quite highly, as soon as you pull out one little thread, you find one little chink... that's when it's the funniest.

There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.

Comedy is my soft spot.

Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.

I'm not mean. I can't do a roast.

I think what's hysterically funny is a guy who sets himself up as the most confident, everything's-perfect, know-it-all, things-are-swell human being and then gets wiped out every time.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general I. The armies of Olympus. You shall henceforth lead you breathren into war whenever required by the gods. And you shall have a new...um...what kind of weapon would you like? A sword? An axe?" "Stick!" Tyson said, showing his broken club. "Very well," Zeus said. "We will grant you a new, er, stick. The best stick that may be found." "Hooray!

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

Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

I was always the first one to break. I'll admit it. I couldn't keep a straight face.

When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.