Top 49 Edmondson Quotes
#1. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.
Maureen Corrigan
#2. Why was he answering her questions? He was trained to hold up under interrogation, but Mrs Partridge had no trouble getting information out of him. Nor out of anyone else, probably. Perhaps she was indeed a witch. 'So
Elizabeth Edmondson
#3. There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Adrian Edmondson
#4. This is a complicated web, Maria. We're tangled in it." "Then I suppose we'll continue to need a spider who can navigate the threads. You're the only person I can trust right now.
Nathan Edmondson
#5. Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
Adrian Edmondson
#6. You might think I'm cold-hearted. I am. I can't afford distractions. I've got work to do.
Nathan Edmondson
#7. Pro tip: (Often learned too late) Don't argue with crazy. Just expect crazy... to be f*****g insane.
Nathan Edmondson
#8. Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.
Adrian Edmondson
#9. All alone. But not quite. I might have enjoyed company. But that would mean letting someone get close. And if I let someone get close... They might find out who I really I am. And no one will ever know my full story. No one.
Nathan Edmondson
#10. A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
Adrian Edmondson
#11. I am a spy. Not some rooftop-jumping archer, shield-wielding super-soldier, or shiny-metal philanthrobot. I need to make that clear on my business card. Espionage is shadow warfare. Cold combat. Does anything about this feel cold to you?
Nathan Edmondson
#12. I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
Adrian Edmondson
#13. Thanks." "For what?" "I needed someone angrier than I was." "I am that." "And Logan wanted me to look out for you." "You're angry, Laura. But you're not alone.
Nathan Edmondson
#14. Sometimes I wish I had some Captain America super-strength to get through tired days. Or some of Stark's patented 24-hour energy shots. (But those things will kill you.) Not sure why he needs them. The guy's got a generator stuck in his chest. Don't even get me started on Thor-
Nathan Edmondson
#15. I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
Adrian Edmondson
#16. Sociopathy. Defined: Psychopathic. Antisocial. Criminal. Lacking morality and responsibility. I don't try to play psychiatrist to myself... I just want to know.
Nathan Edmondson
#17. The twentieth-century scholar G. B. Harrison, believing the woman to have been black-skinned, proposed a prostitute named Lucy Morgan;
Paul Edmondson
#18. I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
Adrian Edmondson
#19. We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
Adrian Edmondson
#20. I'm not a trained soldier. I'm a spy. But I am a fighter. But lately I've felt more like a soldier than a spy. And if that's what the world is asking for... I'm happy to oblige.
Nathan Edmondson
#21. I'm getting Captain America." (Clint) "Get popcorn." (Tony)
Nathan Edmondson
#22. I need answers. I need a path." "Go, get your guy. I've got this. Trust me, Nat. I'm calm."... "Hi, I'm Laura. You're going to tell me everything I want to hear.
Nathan Edmondson
#23. Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
Adrian Edmondson
#24. When you need them, agents are at your disposal. And any special gear you'd like?" "As a matter of fact... Yes. I'll give you a list.
Nathan Edmondson
#25. One benefit of government work? Frequent flyer miles. Seriously, I get bumped up about every flight. Still not as nice as the director's private jet though...
Nathan Edmondson
#27. How... is she?" "She? I'm the one who's been shot. You're aware of that, right?" "Welcome to the full metal jacket club, counselor. I'll, uh, get you a membership card." "Get right on that.
Nathan Edmondson
#28. We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
Adrian Edmondson
#29. There is no such thing as a straight line, the sun does not go down, and it is time we updated our language. A more mesmerizing discourse I have never heard.
Amy C. Edmondson
#30. It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
Adrian Edmondson
#31. Picking your own jobs means you get to exercise your own ethics. But ethics isn't a science. Which is to say... You do your best... But that doesn't make you right.
Nathan Edmondson
#32. All I'm saying, Isaiah, is I want you to to think about it. You don't owe her anything." "Yes, I do. We all owe her. Me especially. It's more difficult to distinguish the good from the bad every day- and she needs people that she can trust. Because the world is full of people she can't.
Nathan Edmondson
#33. It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.
Adrian Edmondson
#34. Not to sound like the smartest guy in the room or anything, but...
Nathan Edmondson
#35. What these men do not know about me, though... is a black widow dangling by herself on a single thread... is a deadly thing. A really dangerous thing.
Nathan Edmondson
#36. Nothing. Stay warm, is all. Be careful." "I will." "You've got this. ...You always did impress me.
Nathan Edmondson
#37. We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
Adrian Edmondson
#38. I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
Adrian Edmondson
#39. You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
Adrian Edmondson
#41. The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.
Adrian Edmondson
#42. When it's time to retire, maybe I could disappear too." "I always thought you'd end up taking a director's position at S.H.I.E.L.D." "Some day we all retire, Isaiah. The trick is to be sure you do it well before life is done with you.
Nathan Edmondson
#43. People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
Adrian Edmondson
#44. I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.
Adrian Edmondson
#45. From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
Adrian Edmondson
#46. Sins of the past that I can't rectify alone. Sins I committed as an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D. I need help and fast. I need someone off the books. Someone angry.
Nathan Edmondson
#47. And if she doesn't--" "Like all of you, she's a deniable asset, agent. This isn't the Red Cross,
Nathan Edmondson
#48. I was wondering, I mean, I'f we're going to be here a while... Maybe we could order some pizza...? But please, no olives because I can't--
Nathan Edmondson
#49. On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
Adrian Edmondson
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