Ridiculous Quotes

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

I'm not one of these guys who says 'Now I'm on a really hot show. Better quit soon before I get labeled.' That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

It's a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it's a ridiculous dispute.

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous.

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous!

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.