The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.
Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.
I think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek... and I think that made kind of an homage to those earlier comic books, where Batman always had a quip or something.
You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny.
If there's something funny to be said, I will say it.
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.
I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.
The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
I'm probably one of most quotable guys in America.
Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.
I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.'
I actually noticed how much I love my Sonicare because my friend got me a Quip, which I'll take with me when I'm traveling, but is not as great a toothbrush.
I definitely have friends who gave me a tag for a joke I already had. Like, 'Here's another line.' A tag is, 'Oooooh, it's an industry term.' It's like, there's the punchline, and a tag is like a secondary punchline.
Looking back, I was a very good kid, very studious and all. But I would always come out with a quip - and I was sent to the principal's office several times.
