Quotes About Originality

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

"I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

Genius is born-not paid

I was born by Caesarian section . . . but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

Sane is boring.

We are all copy cats. The only original 'thing' is God, And "him", hell, most of us know as little as we know cats.

Never follow the crowd....Until and unless you're crossing the road...

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.