Ridiculous Quotes

Let me tell you now a man of my position can afford to look ridiculous at any time.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express.

The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

I've learned to not care. There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

...The people love him. So how can we condemn him?

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.