Satirist Quotes

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

I`m not really a political satirist. I don`t kid myself. I`m more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn`t be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

This is satire. I am a satirist. Modern-day society has this obsession with needing to know every ounce of angst about performers` lives, to the point that it becomes more important than whether they can perform. (On his Broadway show Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, 2006)

(on the characters in The Rules of Attraction (2002) and them as people) Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn`t write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You`d be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, "I love these characters".

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.