There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.
~By Tim Vine ~
If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings.
~By Wayne Rooney ~
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
~By Barry Gibb ~
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
~By Red Skelton ~
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
~By Richard Aldington ~
I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
~By Naomi Judd ~
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.
~By Saffron Burrows ~
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~By Rose Franken ~
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
~By Gaius Valerius Catullus ~
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
~By William Law ~
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.
~By Peter Cushing ~
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.
~By Neil Innes ~
It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
~By Charles Manson ~
I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.
~By Roland Joffe ~
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
~By Victor Garber ~
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
~By Wallace Stevens ~
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
~By Renny Harlin ~
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
~By Greta Garbo ~
They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
~By Cass Elliot ~
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
~By Pam Brown ~
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
~By Diane Cilento ~
I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
~By Michael Palin ~
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
~By Ben Elton ~
Silly sitcoms are designed to attract juveniles of all ages.
~By John J. O'Connor ~
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.
~By Judy Davis ~
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
~By Elizabeth Gaskell ~
I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
~By Larisa Oleynik ~
I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.
~By John Mayer ~
I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!
~By Danielle Steel ~
I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.
~By Coco Lee ~
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
~By Horace ~
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
~By James Harvey Robinson ~
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
~By Salma Hayek ~
Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.
~By Treat Williams ~
Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
~By Dana Carvey ~
People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
~By Bob Woodward ~
I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.
~By Denis Johnson ~
Don't be afraid to look silly.
~By Tara Strong ~
I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
No, Jar Jar Binks was fine by me but probably went on a little bit too long. When they were in trouble and were battling, it should have been more serious and it became a bit too silly.
~By Jeremy Bulloch ~
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
~By Barry Levinson ~
Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.
~By Jane Asher ~
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.
~By William Hung ~
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
~By Taryn Manning ~
I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.
~By Connie Chung ~
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
~By Angela Carter ~
I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
~By Hank Azaria ~
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.
~By Peter Farrelly ~
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
~By Phil Donahue ~
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
~By Harold Pinter ~
This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.
~By Rasmus Lerdorf ~
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
~By Arthur Golden ~
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
~By Tanith Lee ~
The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
~By Taylor Lautner ~
My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.
~By Mike Myers ~
I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly "Scrubs" guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
~By Zach Braff ~
I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.
~By Alan Price ~
It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
~By Boris Becker ~
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
~By Mary Wortley ~
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
The best things in life are silly.
~By Scott Adams ~
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
~By Gene Wilder ~
When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
~By Mike Myers ~
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
~By John von Neumann ~
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
~By Horace ~
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
Actually I consider myself a superficially normal looking person who has a vast collection of bizarre silly porn hidden in his basement, as all normal looking people do, and I'm keeping it hidden from everyone in the world except those few people with access to the Internet.
~By Chris A. Bridges ~
There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
~By Marcia Wallace ~
After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.
~By Frank Rich ~
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
~By Cab Calloway ~
Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.
~By Puff Daddy ~
First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
~By Milos Forman ~
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
~By Russell Hoban ~
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