Top 38 Shawn Wayans Quotes
#1. We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.
Shawn Wayans
#2. Now we have to hit them from a different angle.
Shawn Wayans
#3. Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!
Rick Riordan
#4. I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
Garth Nix
#5. I never had time to dream about being anyone else.
Pat Nixon
#6. A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
Ira Gershwin
#7. There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.
Shawn Wayans
#8. A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.
Shawn Wayans
#9. Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.
Robin Boyd
#10. We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.
Shawn Wayans
#11. I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on.
Shawn Wayans
#12. We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.
Shawn Wayans
#13. Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons.
Peter Sagal
#14. Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Dave Barry
#15. You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.
Shawn Wayans
#18. I am Notak," he answered in his dry, normal voice. "I kill Demons.
S.G. Night
#20. We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.
Shawn Wayans
#21. I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.
Big Sean
#22. If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
Shawn Wayans
#23. My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#24. Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.
Shawn Wayans
#25. When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
Stephen Gaghan
#27. We like writing with each other; it's fun.
Shawn Wayans
#28. We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.
Shawn Wayans
#29. You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
Shawn Wayans
#30. Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn't want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn't feel so good today.
Rollo Romig
#31. Im sorry it's just a little case of PMS that's all ... Im just one big emotional wreck ... Could you guys go get me some Midol and a Snicker
Shawn Wayans
#32. We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.
Shawn Wayans
#33. A recent Pew Study revealed that 70% of Americans with a religious affiliation say that many religions lead to eternal life. Some people might think that "surely the statistics among evangelical Christians is different." Not by much.
Robert Jeffress
#34. For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
Shawn Wayans
#35. The monotheist religions expelled the gods through the front door with a lot of fanfare, only to take them back in through the side window. Christianity, for example, developed its own pantheon of saints, whose cults differed little from those of the polytheistic gods.
Yuval Noah Harari
#36. They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.
Shawn Wayans
#37. Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.
Shawn Wayans
#38. Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
Iain Duncan Smith
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