Farce Quotes
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[On his movie Big Trouble (2002)] "It was more of a crappy farce than a black comedy. I took the job so I could work with such a great director. But in the end, it ended up living up it its name. I`ve learned that calling a film a black comedy is like the...
Ben Foster
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It`s part of my job. You can`t play Veronica Guerin [puts on heavy Strine] sounding like this. It just wouldn`t wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it`s a farce - is that it`s not slapped on. [on doing many accents]
Cate Blanchett
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If you write about Hollywood, you can only write farce. It`s so way over the top, you can`t believe it. It`s Sunset Blvd. (1950), it really is. And it`s cut-throat at the same time.
Dirk Bogarde
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This was not an election, this was a farce, this was a scandal. Mubarak wants me to shut up. He does not want me to talk in the Parliament about his son`s wealth or business deals. He knows that I am the only competitor to Gamal and he wants me out of the...
Anne Dunkelberg
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This is a farce. Whose plan is this? It`s not the public`s. They need to go to the drawing board and include the public.
Anthony Coscia
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The idea that House and Senate GOP leaders would write two tax reconciliation numbers in the budget -- $550 billion for the House and $350 billion for the Senate -- is not only a cry of desperation by our Republican friends, but also an outrage and a farc...
Barbara Gibson
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Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.
Trish Stratus
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Lane is a Tony-winning producer ( Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage aux Folles ) and part-time playwright. Based on the evidence here, Lane should stick to producing. He has attempted to write a romantic comedy/farce/backstage play. It fails as all threeâ...
William Stevenson
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It`s the most horrible experience of my life, ... a farce.
Jack Russell
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
John Mortimer
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Everyone (in the track and field team) is so laughing at what`s going on ... it`s really a bit of a farce. It`s time to let our feet do the talking.
Tamsyn Lewis
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones
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Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It`s the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
Peter Shaffer
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Adrian Ramirez
