"I was a 36C or D, and at 5` 1", I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world."
- Janeane GarofaloHe`s eight foot tall, has stupid glasses, awful hair, but it makes me look good, which is why he`s in the series. We look so strange on screen together as well. The height difference is ridiculous. I want people to know that he is a freak and I`m the normal one. Don`t look at this and go, `What? Didn`t know Ricky was a dwarf.` I`m not. He`s the weird one. - mocking his comedy partner, Stephen Merchant
- Ricky GervaisThere`s a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
- Harold Pinter(The Pillow Book) The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages - English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat and curved surfaces, vertically and horizontally, on both living and dead flesh, in neon, on screens, in projection, as sub-title, inter-title, and sur-title, as High Art and low art, as advertisement and banker`s check and registration plate, on photograph, on blackboard, as letter correspondence, as photocopy facsimile, and spoken, chanted, and sung, with and without music ... a mocking challenge. You want text? Cinema wants text? Cinema pretends to eschew text? Then we can give you text to mock that smug suggestion that cinema thinks it is pictures.
- Peter GreenawayMost of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.
- Richard ReevesYou lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln`s bier, You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face.
- Tom Taylor