Slapstick Quotes

Slapstick Quote of the day

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

The story is uneven in its progression.

We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine.

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!