Top 49 Farrelly Quotes
#1. Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this.
Peter Farrelly
#2. Whatever solace TJ Farrelly sought, he would have to find it on his own. She had racked her brain until she had realized the truth: she had none to give.
Christopher Golden
#3. We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.
Bobby Farrelly
#4. There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.
Peter Farrelly
#5. The guy I've never worked with that is pissing me off is Tom Hanks. I want to work with Tom Hanks more than anyone.
Peter Farrelly
#6. 'Movie 43' is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.
Peter Farrelly
#7. With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!
Peter Farrelly
#8. I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.
Bobby Farrelly
#9. No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, either. But if they're anything like some men I know, their love for Moe, Larry, and Curly (and an assortment of fourth bananas) is deep, abiding, and unembarrassable. In other words: How could the Farrellys not?
Wesley Morris
#10. We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.
Bobby Farrelly
#11. I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she's a cool chick.
Peter Farrelly
#13. Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.
Peter Farrelly
#14. You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date!
Peter Farrelly
#15. To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.
Peter Farrelly
#16. His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the '80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.
Lou Lumenick
#17. I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.
Peter Farrelly
#18. Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
Bobby Farrelly
#19. We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.
Bobby Farrelly
#20. If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.
Peter Farrelly
#21. Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
Peter Farrelly
#22. We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.
Peter Farrelly
#23. I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.
Bobby Farrelly
#24. We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.
Bobby Farrelly
#25. In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.
Bobby Farrelly
#26. I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.
Peter Farrelly
#27. We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.
Peter Farrelly
#28. In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.
Bobby Farrelly
#29. His life changed history. His courage changed lives.
Liz Farrelly
#31. Frank Farrelly ... must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy with their therapists, but, I am afraid, also a shocking example for those therapists who, in Laing's words, 'are playing at not playing a game'.
Paul Watzlawick
#32. It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.
Bobby Farrelly
#33. I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.
Bobby Farrelly
#34. Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
Peter Farrelly
#35. Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
Peter Farrelly
#37. Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
Bobby Farrelly
#39. The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.
Jenna Fischer
#40. The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.
Bobby Farrelly
#41. 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.
Peter Farrelly
#42. I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.
Bobby Farrelly
#43. I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.
Bobby Farrelly
#44. You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong.
Bobby Farrelly
#45. I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!
Carly Craig
#46. If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.
Peter Farrelly
#47. Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
Bobby Farrelly
#48. There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important.
Peter Farrelly
#49. I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
Bobby Farrelly
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