Quotes About Provocation

If you really want to wind up Piers Morgan, send him a pic of Jeremy Clarkson.

My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

Oliver Stone should be given a helping hand - indeed, a vigorous shove - into the land of forced retirement. There, in the professional wilderness where he belongs, standing on a splintered soapbox right next to Mel Gibson's, he can preach his anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism into the wind.

When I wind someone up, it's never to make them feel angry or aggressive; that doesn't make good telly. It's about uncovering a layer of themselves that is kind of sweet and nice.

Years ago, I was watching a debate on Fox News, when I thought, 'These guys are basically like pranksters, they bring the people in and wind them up.' I was like, 'That's what I do!'

I understand that when people try to wind me up, it's because I'm playing well. Whenever I had trouble, it was because I reacted to something. Now I'm much more focused on the game and on doing my job.

I'm good at winding up British people, but Americans are slightly different. A lot of them are more stoical. They're harder to get a reaction out of more of the time.

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.

I quite like winding up other competitive people. I enjoy that.

Muhammad Ali was the one who started it, winding up his opponents, but he always did it with a twinkle in his eye and a bit of class about him. Mayweather is just insulting from start to finish.

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Whatever I do winds people up. I've been tattooed with every one of those criticisms.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

We held signs that said 'Thank God For Dead Soldiers,' 'Thank God For IEDs.'

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

Let them eat cake.

AAAAHHHHHHHhhhhh! WHOOSH, WHOOSH, YOU BASTARD!

The first time he tapped her toe she thought it happened by accident. The second time, she kicked him.

Everyone nice when asleep. But you press on one of his corns and then you see what kind of man he is.

Now you can say you've been bitten in the ass by an ass." "That's

I will ask you again. Are you mad? Well, that is the rumor, isn't it?

My wife tries not to bring out the beast in me -she's afraid of mice.