Peter Farrelly Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. ~ Jake is my lion, and Leo is my boy, I love both, I need both - Just one or the other doesn't add up to the complete person that he's become.~

Mia Sheridan

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I went to see my doctor ... Doctor Vidi-boom-ba. Yeah ... I told him once, "Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me?" He said, "I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect."

Rodney Dangerfield

#7. The paparazzi don't care about me.

Nicholas Hoult

#8. I know guys. I know the way they think.

Peter Farrelly

#9. Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

Peter Farrelly

#10. It is possible for one to receive all the glory of the world provided there is absolutely no ill intent, within him.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

#12. Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.

Peter Farrelly

#13. 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

#14. This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Bryan Cranston

#15. There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. 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

#17. Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being ...

Simone Weil

#18. 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

#19. He said the truth is like that water: it doesn't matter how hard you try to bury it; it'll always find some way back to the surface. It's resilient.

K.A. Tucker

#20. The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. 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

#22. Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this.

Peter Farrelly

#23. There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.

Peter Farrelly

#24. 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

#25. 'Movie 43' is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

Peter Farrelly

#26. In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Thomas Huxley

#27. 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

#28. I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she's a cool chick.

Peter Farrelly

#29. Yeah you do. It's called get your ass registered and don't eat and litter. Rules are simple here," I said.
"I never really did care for rules. And I'm new, I don't know better.

Alyse M. Gardner

#30. We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.

Peter Farrelly

#31. You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date!

Peter Farrelly

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

Peter Farrelly

#35. The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.

Barbara Kingsolver

#36. I don't just wanna be James Franco's little brother.

Dave Franco

#37. If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.

Peter Farrelly

#38. 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