Clan Quotes

I think humor delineates who your friends really are. I worked on Little Noises (1992) with Rik Mayall, and he described to me a theory of humor. With pack animals, if there`s a sick one in the bunch, the others will growl at it and try to get rid of it. This translates to the comedian on-stage. There are two types of comedians. One who says, "Everybody laugh at that person," and the braver comedian who makes them laugh or growl at himself. It brings people together. The audience laughs at this sick thing: they become a part of this clan or tribe. And that`s where you get your friends: you share a certain humor about the sick and the foolish.

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It`s like a clan. If I`m asked to people`s houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they`ll talk about other things.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we`re brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

I feel like hip-hop right now is a lot of keyboard and minimalist stuff, and something I personally wanted to do is bring some of that organic feel back to it, that `90s hip-hop, maybe the Boogie Down Productions or that Native Tongues type of thing or Wu-Tang Clan. So it`s a lot of live instrumentation, but it still bangs like a sample. (about the uniqueness of the hiphop music he makes, like on the Fort Minor album)

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

If we brought the whole family here, there would be 50 of us. We call our family a clan.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community`s armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Communism in our time can no more be considered apart from the crisis clan a fever can be acted upon apart from an infected body.