Misadventures Quotes

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope fleeing America and finding Dorothy Lamour in some exotic location. Bob's character was cocky and cowardly; Bing's character was smooth and unruffled. They were great characters - lousy, lovable guys.

The ones that I love of 'I Love Lucy' are when one of them decides they need something, and the other one is along for the ride, sort of as the voice of reason, and is helping and making it worse.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

I'm always up to no good, messing about.

With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.

We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.

I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

I wouldn't want everything in my personal life spread on a billboard any more than anyone else would, because we've all had our escapades.

Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.

Even though Laverne and Shirley were always, like, submitting themselves for medical testing and falling asleep on a date or whatever, they always had each other's back.