Paul Provenza Quotes

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.

Paul Provenza

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 31, 1957

Topics

ArtWordsRealityLanguageQuestions

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

ManSupportStatisticsLampRather

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

John Cleese

GoodBetterInterestingLongBack

We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

Mel Gibson

ProcessDyingEveryoneEverythingUs

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Maya Angelou

HistoryTimeLongHumanBecause

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John le Carre

LoveLove IsYouBetrayalWhatever

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

Andy Richter

SuccessMeNightShortPushLate

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

Andy Serkis

NatureSchoolPeopleThinkDoing

What drives the attractiveness of a trans-shipment hub are really three things. Location, location, location is very helpful. But so is productivity - a stable labor force and getting ships in and out as quickly as possible. And then, getting costs as low as possible will drive carrier behavior.

Soren Skou

DriveBehaviorLaborThreePossible

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Simone Weil

LifeHistoryImaginationInfluence

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

Tom Stoppard

FunnyUnexpectedYouLoseBackKnow

Always do something different from the others.

Michele Ferrero

OthersAlwaysSomethingDifferent

I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It's a good trick I learned from my mother. I like NYX or MAC because they have a lot of pigment and they're matte.

Lou Doillon

GoodMotherLipstickLooksBlush

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