Mockery Quotes

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 why he continued pursuing ballet despite the mockery) - "The other boys called me `poof`, `ballerina boy`, "Get on your tutu, Jamie." It gave me more determination to prove it wasn`t just for girls. It was for boys as well."

How they got Gary Cooper to do that one! To me, at least, it simply degrades the Medal of Honor. The whole story makes a mockery of America`s highest award for valor. The whole premise of the story was wrong, illogical, because they don`t pick the type of men the movie picked to win the award, and that can be proved by the very history of the award. - On They Came to Cordura (1959)

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

First, we must stop issuing drivers` licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.

I wanted to make fun of my own jokes, and send them up. So I made up new routines which were more outrageous than the silliest ones I usually invent. I wanted to make myself ludicrous to the point where viewers would say, `This guy`s had it`. I enjoyed my self-mockery so much I totally lost myself in it.

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Comedians still make fun of Bill`s out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

I love that kind of wild attitude in creating things. It is very amusing to me that so many people, designers, creators are trying to remake the `60s. I did (it) at the beginning, just for sort of mockery but gentle mockery,

The Saints aren`t going to be the first team that they made a mockery of.

He (Arrington) said, `I`ve got one, too,` ... This man makes a mockery of his courtroom.