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Richard Ayoade

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Comedian

Richard Ayoade, born on June 12, 1977, is a British comedian, director, and screenwriter. He is known for his unique sense of humor and deep understanding of the art of film. Ayoade gained widespread recognition for his performance in the film 'The Triplets of Belleville', after which he began to venture into directing and screenwriting, with works including 'About Steve' and 'House of Cards'.

Afterthoughts: Wisdom for the Unreflective

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“So I've tried to make this book as dense as possible, like a neutron star. And if you think I came up with that simile by googling 'What stuff is most dense?', you'd be wrong. I already knew neutron stars were maybe dense before I googled it to make sure.”

Google Simile Dense Maybe Gordy Lasure Googling Neutron Star

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“There's no life in school. It's an edifice built on chalk dust.”

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“Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity.”

Art Evil Creativity Morality Bad People Humanityy

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“Shyness can be interpreted as a kind of aggression.”

Silence Quiet Introvert Misunderstood Shyness

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“I don't know that I brood. I just occasionally take time out to silently consider the specific ways in which others have wronged me.”

Silence Brooding

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“Imagine what life would be like if God hated us.”

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“Old money is like a stagnant pond. There's always something rotten hidden out of sight.”

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“In life you’re born in the middle of the race, before you can walk, and you have no shoes, and you can’t control your bowels, and also everyone is booing, and maybe you’re in the wrong race.”

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“Those who say that life’s too short haven’t lived very long.”

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“A pessimist is an optimist in disguise–a disguise that will never work.”

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“The same people who say winners don’t give up on their dreams call you a loser for sleeping all day.”

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“There's a line in David Lean's punishingly long 1962 desert flick, Lawrence of Arabia: 'Truly for some men nothing is written unless they write it.' Duh.”

Film Cinema Movies Duh Lawrence Of Arabia Gordy Lasure David Lean Biopic Desert Flick

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“If a fleet of jet-black CHOPPERS ain't cresting over a back-lit hill by the end of Act II, you've got to start asking yourself whether this is a movie or a fucking art installation.”

Art Film Cinema Movies Choppers Gordy Lasure

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“Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator?”

Film Cinema Movies Predator Gordy Lasure

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“Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator/i>?”

Film Cinema Movies Predator Gordy Lasure

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“You know, it's funny: there are never any middle-aged souls. You hear about people being young souls, you really hear about old souls, but what about middle-aged souls?”

Middle Aged Old Souls Young Souls

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“When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with all the other books I haven’t read, so that one day it can present a logistical problem to those who survive me.”

Humor Books Pragmatic Delusional People

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“A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.”

Men Persons Done Laughing Comedy Stupid Shots Reactions Funny Things

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“As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.”

Thinking Film Wish Lines Happened Land All Time

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“The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.”

People Ifs Two Character Film Pleasure Talking Situation Knowing Seeing Shots Tables Irony Classic Bombs Hitchcock People Talking Knowing More

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“I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.”

People Persons Social

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“A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.”

Knows Doe Sometimes Written Directors Tough Scripts Translate Facility Gauges Tough Things

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“American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.”

Trying Film Television Keys Scripts Volume American Television

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“I think there's nothing worse than telling actors what to do in front of everyone, because then on the next take, everyone's waiting to see if you do that ... Everyone watches. It's just the worst thing.”

Ifs Thinking Next Actors Waiting Watches Worst Fronts Worst Things

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“I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.”

People Ifs Feels Asks Stuff Scene Scripts Working It

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“With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.”

Feels Wells Littles Film Sound Rooms Performances Nervous Performing Variables Acoustics Premieres Live Performance

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“The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.”

Stories Actors Interesting Audience Primaries Links Most Interesting

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“I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.”

Feels Actors Felt Instinct Very Good Accurate Feels Right

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“I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.”

People Thinking Different Behavior Capacity Different Things Contradictory

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“I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that's how any process works.”

Thinking Writing Trying Wells Sometimes Process Terrible Truth Is Wow Really Great

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“When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.”

Trying Ends Hard Play Shows Feelings Three Courses Four Week New York Terrible Eating Okay Accounts Eight Tomatoes

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“I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.”

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“No. I really don't think I'm cool. I'm not.”

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“I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.”

Talking Terrible

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“Cars are good for entrances and exits. And there is something about driving that is quite cliched in a funny way. I like Roy Orbison's video for I Drove All Night because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour.”

Men Way Night Impossible Car Humour Ridiculous Driving Video All Night Literal Exit Entrances Silliness Ridiculous Things

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“Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.”

Should Hate Wide Pet Confined

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“To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour”

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About the Author

Born: June 12, 1977
Known for: Comedian
Quotes: 37

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