Brendan O Carroll Quotes

#1. I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.

Brendan O'Carroll

#2. If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

Brendan O'Carroll

#3. Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.

Alex Pareene

#4. In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each ...

Stephen Jay Gould

#5. One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you.
Mark Andrew Ramsay

Brendan Carroll

#6. She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. "You're lost!" "You're angry!" "You're in the wrong school!" "You're in the wrong country!" "You're on the wrong planet!

Laurie Halse Anderson

#7. You failed. But you lived. The sooner you own up to it, the faster you evolve.

Mimi Ikonn

#8. I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

David Cronenberg

#9. People feel like they know you when you're in their living room, weekly, for five years. But I always get uncomfortable when people know more about me than I know about them.

Nina Dobrev

#10. I have a plan.
We'll either destroy them for good, or they'll destroy us.
Either way, only one of us is walking away.

Gena Showalter

#11. I felt argument coiling in my belly.

Naomi Novik

#12. You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.

Brendan O'Carroll

#13. An abuser's psychological diagnosis isn't the problem. Their sense of entitlement is.

Caroline Abbott

#14. I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

Brendan O'Carroll

#15. Rev. Pat Robertson says that if more states legalize gay marriage, God will destroy America. He did say that afterwards, gays will come in and do a beautiful renovation.

Conan O'Brien

#16. Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

Robertson Davies

#17. Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.

Brendan O'Carroll

#18. I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.

Brendan O'Carroll

#19. People have really taken Mrs. Brown to their hearts. I think she reminds them of their own mammies ... Fierce and scary but full of love.

Brendan O'Carroll

#20. For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.

Brendan O'Carroll

#21. I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.

Brendan O'Carroll

#22. Della pretty much told him the same thing. And she gave him hell. The kind of hell only Della can dish out. Told him he was a piece of monkey shit and that he should go have himself castrated.

C.C. Hunter

#23. I'm moving around; doing stuff. I can walk. I can even run.

William Perry