Sketches Quotes

(In reference to King Kong (1933)) "He (Merian Cooper) called me into his office and showed me sketches of jungle scenes and told me, `You`re going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.` Naturally, I thought Clark Gable. But then he showed me this sketch of a giant ape up the side of the Empire State Building, and he said, `There`s your leading man.`" (2004)

Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

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

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.

You do sketches first when you do period films. People think that the sketches are quite pretty and they like that and that`s how it`s got to be.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

I have done a sketch show almost every year since I started in 1975. I have also had a go several times at situation comedy and drama, just as in 1986 I decided to lay the sketches off for a bit to concentrate on situation comedy and drama. I am NOT giving up comedy. I love doing stand-up comedy and characters.

Other people build sketches after taking too many sleeping pills, but I never preferred that method, since I would keep dropping my pencil.

I think Holy Grail is funnier, but Life of Brian has the best combination because it`s a simple enough plot to just string a lot of sketches on it.

We had to write character sketches. I was so intimidated.

I think I had a very lucky break when we asked Mike Newell to do Four Weddings. Mike is a very serious, beautiful person, a wonderful director. What he succeeded in doing was to hide the fact that the original script read much more like a series of sketches.

While in New York, struggling for a theatrical career, I started writing sketches, free-lance, for the Steve Allen Tonight Show.