Grotesque Quotes

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• There`s a side of me that always fell for manic things, frenzied, cartoony performances. I always liked sideshows, freakshows. Jerry Lewis was a freakshow...Absolutely grotesque, awful, tasteless. I like things to be tasteless. Terry Gilliam
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• My films deal with a stylized, expressionistic world that has a kind of grotesque beauty about it. Brian De Palma
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• I`m a loner. I don`t like beautiful people, but I find beauty in the grotesque. And in the sweet soul inside someone who has been able to get through their life without being a rat`s ass. Such people should be collected, should be swept up immediately and... Susan Tyrrell
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• Naturalness is the greatest requisite of comedy. It must be real and true to life. I believe in realism absolutely. Real things appeal to the people far quicker than the grotesque. My comedy is actual life, with the slightest twist or exaggeration, you mi... Charlie Chaplin
  Author: Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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• The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it`s grotesque. Andre Johnson
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• Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You`re for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes... Ann Coulter
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• Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. Alex Garwood
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• I`m not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now. Ivan Reitman
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• I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation. Dustin Hoffman
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• I did the one with the big butt. They said they want something that looks like a Renoir with the face of a 19th-century painting, so we had to do a grotesque painting. It was done in four days. Christopher Moore
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• I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy. Dario Fo
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• Clever, but not grotesque, Chris Adams
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  Keywords: but :: clever :: grotesque :: not

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• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be. Alex Garwood
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• All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. Allen Jackson
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