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Quotes About Adaptation

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.
~ Jerry Coleman
Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".
~ Jerry Coleman
I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.
~ Judd Nelson
As I get older, the character evolves tremendously because I'm married and have kids now and realize certain things are not funny anymore. I threw them out of my act.
~ Larry the Cable Guy
Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.
~ Margaret Cho
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
~ Mark Twain
Yeah, I think there are a lot of things about Cleveland that I miss. Los Angeles is a funny place to live.
~ Monica Potter
Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.
~ Nicholas Stoller
How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.
~ Nora Roberts
I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.
~ Sarah Silverman
The sky already fell. Now what?
~ Steven Wright
I plugged my phone in where the blender used to be. I called someone. They went "Aaaaahhhh..."
~ Steven Wright
I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.
~ Thomas Lennon
It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.
~ Tim Hetherington
If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.
~ William Monahan
When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped wearing socks.
~ Albert Einstein
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers we get Aquatruck.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads.
~ Unknown
A horse blanket, Mel?I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right fo
~ Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
You'd be surprised." Charlie said."You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit.""What the hell is Limp Bizkit?
~ Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter.
~ Holly Hood, Ink