Farce Quotes

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)

Playing gay in the theater is more fulfilling than on film because you can create a whole character and a backstory and you get to chip away at something over a long period of time. When you’re acting on film you sort of have one afternoon in front of a crew to just do it. And you don’t want to then be too overt and like that stereotype. But when I was doing A Paris Letter with Josh (Radnor), I was playing someone overtly flamboyant from the ’60s seducing him, and if I did that on film, I think it would look like I was acting too hard. It’s one of the fun things one wants to do as an actor, to play the flamboyant gay guy. But when you are gay that ends up being offensive to people. Say I was asked to play a flamboyant steward in an Airplane!–type farce. It would be a difficult decision to say yes to that role at this point because a lot of people would accuse me of making a mockery of gay people.

(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 kiss of death."

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

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.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

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.

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 three'¦ The playwright goes to remarkably tacky lengths to get laughs'¦ and still doesn`t get them'¦ Even the intentionally rotten musical numbers from I Married a Communist aren`t funny. Perhaps that`s because the clueless comedy surrounding them is just as amateurish.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

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.

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.

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 way.

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.

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 farce!