Grotesques Quotes

#1. It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

Mark Gatiss

#2. It was an age of freaks, monsters, and grotesques. All the world was misshapen in marvelous and malevolent ways.

Alfred Bester

#3. There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

Thomas Browne

#4. Well, even if the boy lives, he'll be a cripple, grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.' ... 'Speaking for the grotesques, I'll have to disagree. Death is so final. Whereas life, ah life is so full of possibilities.

George R R Martin

#5. Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques - the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads, the unveiled structure of man in the embryo, or the skeleton?

Walter Pater

#6. I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

Harry Shearer

#7. The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

Glen Cook

#8. Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE

Tristan Tzara

#9. Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy ...

Oscar Wilde

#10. He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

Simon Callow

#11. Religious figures, gargoyles, and grotesques, she though, looked fine on Gothic cathedrals, but she'd always spent more time looking at the murals inside the buildings than the carvings outside.
So why did this one seem to have captured all her attention?

Christine Warren

#12. Like strange mechanical grotesques,
Making fantastic arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling.

Jose Saramago

#14. There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me.

Keeley Hawes

#15. People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

John Mahoney

#16. I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.

Viggo Mortensen

#17. The minute you start getting in trouble, you can't try to do new stuff. You can't try to make a nasty pitch or 'paint the black' because that's when you fall behind. You have to stick with what works for you and go after hitters like there's nobody on base.

Mark Mulder