Quotes About Deadpan

Lipstick?" He arched a brow. "I'm on the hunt for my perfect shade," I respond, deadpan. "Ditch the magenta. Your olive skin screams for rose." His deadpan is better than mine.

All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan.

That's the bad news." "Okay, and what is the good news?" "All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

May I borrow a cup of cyanide?

I've committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

Anytime people see an emotion that is not extremely emotional, they call it 'deadpan.'

The Beasties' TV interlocutor tried to engage them on the subject of flag-burning, to which Adam Horovitz responded deadpan, while staring into the sky, "Nice flag! Flags are cool. I like flags.

I love the deadpan. It's such a strong go-to. It lets the audience make their own decisions about what you're thinking.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

Buster never cracks a smile. Ever. No matter what. That's what really makes it funny.

In close-up, Monty was absolutely riveting. One was practically absorbed into his eyes, which were clearly formidable and perhaps his best asset as an actor. Large, grey, infinitely expressive in his beautiful but rather deadpan face, they could register yearning, intelligence, and despair in quick succession