Best 303 quotes in «ridiculous quotes» category

There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.

There's always the day where you do the effort noises, so there's a lot of grunts, huffing and puffing, pretending like you're hopping over things, pretending like you're getting hit, and pretending like you're kicking. If any of that was recorded, it's some of the silliest stuff I'll ever do, as an actor, but it's fun and liberating, in a way, 'cause no one can see me. I videotape myself doing it sometimes, to send to my friends just to remind us how ridiculous our jobs are.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

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.

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it. You have to see it. You have to seize it and you have to move in to get it, so those lenses are just an escape of some sort or a shield.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour

To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

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

Trick names are so ridiculous!

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

"Well, at least you know it works this time," she said, getting on behind him. "If we crash into the parking lot of a Key Food, I'll kill you, you know that?" "Don't be ridiculous," said Jace. "There are no parking lots on the Upper East Side. Why drive when you can get your groceries delivered?

We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

When I was in London for The Brits recently I read that I had asked for a Jacuzzi in the dressing room - how ridiculous is that?

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

When people would ask me what I was doing, I'd be like, 'It's a horror film.' 'What is it about?' 'You'll just have to see it.' I really didn't want to explain it because it's really tough to explain without it just sounding really ridiculous.