#humour

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#audience #certain #certain kinds #character #characters

We may have thesame dreams, but never thesame nigthmares. ↗

— Igbinovia Ixrael

#humour #inspirational #life #attitude

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive. ↗

— Colin Firth

#aggressive #air #constantly #find #humour

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. ↗

— Dario Fo

#enjoy #hard #humour #incorporate #power

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#back #could #create #distance #humour

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#covers #even #frustration #fury #guy

It was a basic tenet of faith with men of Ranulf’s class that a knight, trained in the ways of war since boyhood, could easily vanquish lesser foes, as much a belief in the superiority of blood and breeding as in the benefits of battle lore and killing competence. Ranulf had accepted this comforting conviction, too, but no one seemed to have told his assailants that they were inferior adversaries. ↗

— Sharon Kay Penman

#faith

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#funny #humour #funny

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#gloom #humour #i #indulgence #laugh

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#anger #angry #come #get #humour