A Sketch Quotes

#1. A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast.

Reece Thompson

#2. In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.

Bob Odenkirk

#3. My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

Brian D'Arcy James

#4. I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Eliot Spitzer

#5. This sense of eagerness, of hope and of secret excitement. It was as if normal existence were a photograph of shapeless things in badly printed colors, but this was a sketch done in a few sharp strokes that made things seem clean, important - and worth doing.

Ayn Rand

#6. I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

Michael Schwab

#7. Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

Adam McKay

#8. When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

John Constable

#9. It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show.

Ken Marino

#10. A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

Eugene Delacroix

#11. It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.

Bob Newhart

#12. If it's strictly comedy, I like to bring some darkness to it. If it's strictly drama, I always like to lighten it up as well. I like to find some kind of dimension and make my characters human, so that it doesn't feel like a sketch and feels more like a slice of life.

Nestor Carbonell

#13. Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

Megan Mullally

#14. A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again - in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind - that which you were in at the time.

John Constable

#15. To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

Artie Lange

#16. Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.

Allison Tolman

#17. I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.

Thomas Lennon

#18. I never set out to do a sketch show.

Demetri Martin

#19. If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

Steve Coogan

#20. Oh, then Etch A Sketch it right out of your head. Chelle

Ruth Cardello

#21. If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'

Robert Webb

#22. When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.

Alber Elbaz

#23. Every time she meets him, she feels like he was a new paper ready to be drawn. And she could clearly remember how the first time she met him, he was like a sketch paper filled with grey and blue and black, all mixed up together forming a confusing storm,

Basma Salem

#24. A sketch is just a mini movie.

Jim Rash

#25. I shook my head back and forth as though I was a human etch-a-sketch, erasing the memory.

Nicole Gulla

#26. Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.

John Mulaney

#27. You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

Harvey Korman

#28. One of Governor Romney's aides today on television said that Governor Romney, after he wins the primaries, will be like an [Etch A Sketch] - you take whatever he said and you can shake it up and it will be gone, and he's going to draw a whole new picture for the general election.

Rick Santorum

#29. Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee.
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?

Spike Milligan

#30. Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded ... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

Scott Thompson

#31. That's the beauty of the summer holidays. It's as if life is just a big Etch-a-Sketch, and once a year you get to shake it vigorously up and down and start again.

Holly Smale

#32. For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping

Pablo Picasso

#33. In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

Wangechi Mutu

#34. People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that.

Matt Lucas

#35. Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

Dennis Miller

#36. We end the show with something that's never been on TV because it was too big for a sketch but we couldn't stretch it out to make a whole episode because it would have been too long, but we always thought it was really good.

Kevin McDonald

#37. That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience "didn't want to see a sketch with two women" can go shit in his hat.

Tina Fey

#38. You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.

Keren Ann

#39. At this point, I feel fairly comfortable in terms of performance. I think having a sketch background actually helps a lot. Because my background is acting, and stand-up, in a lot of ways, is acting.

Michael Ian Black

#40. We did the 'MacGruber' Super Bowl spot for Pepsi, which generated some outside interest. We have a sketch where a guy blows up after 90 seconds. How are we going to make that into a movie?

Jorma Taccone

#41. I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.

Hannibal Buress

#42. With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.

B. J. Porter

#43. I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

Diablo Cody

#44. If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

Lynda Barry

#45. Mitt Romney, who is on record saying that he would not waste money going after bin Laden, and on record saying he would not violate Pakistan's border to get bin Laden, this week said, 'Of course I would have gotten bin Laden.' Even his Etch-A-Sketch went, seriously?

Bill Maher

#46. No way was he touching that subject, and dammit, now the image was burned into his brain. Unfortunately, it wasn't like an Etch A Sketch - no shaking his head up and down to get rid of that image.

S.J.D. Peterson

#47. I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money.

Bill Hader

#48. Gas Attendant: Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet.

Diablo Cody

#49. I got a degree in broadcast journalism at Northwestern but was running a sketch-comedy group and then went to Second City. When the writers' strike happened in 2007-2008, I went to work at E! because I had that background.

Robin Thede

#50. I call it 'the Etch A Sketch life.' Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

John Tesh

#51. I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

Frank Gehry

#52. During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'

Max Von Sydow

#53. Let yourself daydream sometimes ... Allow spontaneous images to come and go. Capture one in a sketch. These images express connections with your inner self.

Nita Leland

#54. What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

Robert Redford

#55. Making Final Fantasy X, anyway, look like an Etch A Sketch.

Thomas Pynchon

#56. When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

Robert Ben Garant

#57. If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.

Bill Buxton

#58. A sketch of a man facing to the right.

Adam Smith

#59. There's this other world where all comedians want to do is make funny videos. Typically what's happened in the past is that a comedian gets a standup career and over the course of 20 years builds it up to the point where Comedy Central gives them a sketch show.

Gavin McInnes

#60. I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

Jack Quaid

#61. I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.

Ed Gamble

#62. One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.

Mary Frann

#63. The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

Yves Tanguy

#64. That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

Jason Sudeikis

#65. She started coming to the meetings. We talked, mostly about you, and it sorta..."
"Just happened," Tori finished, staring at the floor.

"Unh-uh." Cara shook her head, trying to clear it like an Etch a Sketch. "A zit just happens. My best friend going after my ex doesn't just happen.

Melissa Landers

#66. I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.

Trevor Moore

#67. When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

Leslie Jones

#68. If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

Kumail Nanjiani

#69. The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.

Joaquin Sorolla

#70. I watched Master Class with Lorne Michaels on OWN. How can somebody produce a sketch show and talk for an hour and not say something even slightly amusing, or sarcastic, or ironic, or interesting, or informative? 'My mission as a producer is to encourage creativity.' Mission accomplished.

Andy Kindler

#71. Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.

J. E. H. MacDonald

#72. In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

Maxwell

#73. A sketch should be about two to three minutes, which is basically what most songs are. They're usually done by groups. Good examples of each build and have different parts and twists in them. I guess sketch would be the comedy version of music.

Trevor Moore

#74. Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete

Kay Redfield Jamison

#75. Like I said, a sketch is one joke. They shouldn't really be more than a minute, two minutes. There are some shows where the sketch goes on for five minutes. It's like, "I get it! I'm already bored. I did like the joke, but I don't anymore, because you went on too long."

Eric Andre

#76. A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Julia Cameron

#77. I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.

Henri Matisse

#78. When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

Francisco Costa

#79. The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#80. Time's arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.

Ken Liu

#81. Besides, a new decade is a chance to find oneself at the beginning of things. Oh, life! What a sweet little Etch A Sketch of time you are!

Sloane Crosley

#82. You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!

Tina Fey

#83. For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#84. ....my brain works like an etch-a-sketch; even the slightest movement causes it to go completely blank.

Quinn Cummings

#85. When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

Bill Buxton

#86. I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew...

Donna Tartt

#87. If the world was an etch-a-sketch, glaciers are the big shake.

Joe Rogan

#88. We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer ... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#89. We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#90. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

John Krasinski

#91. I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.

Andy Daly

#92. I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut
everything.

Karl Lagerfeld

#93. From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.

Frank Bruno

#94. I'm a very bad impersonator so I can't even remember if I've ever done a sports person. I mean, I think I was Bruce Jenner once but I don't think I said anything in the sketch I was just sitting there in a like a bronze track suit. No dialogue. They don't trust me with dialogue.

Will Forte

#95. I knew I could not sketch a woman, in all her natural inner beauty. I may have the perfect skill, but putting something in pen and paper, is interesting, unique, nothing less than a challenge.

Deepak Ranjan

#96. I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

Rhianna Pratchett

#97. Jeb crouches to fill in the sketch's lower half with paint. His lips twist to a cruel sneer. "That's your favorite pastime, right? And you'll have your prince of moths for company.

A.G. Howard

#98. Starry Starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.

Don McLean

#99. Learning to sketch the nude human form is standard practice for a beginning drawing class," she said. "We always hire a nude model. Last season I did it myself." While he was adjusting to the horror of that, Lucille went on.

Jill Shalvis

#100. I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.

Kyle Dunnigan