Iannucci Quotes & Sayings

My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube. — Armando Iannucci

What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away. — Armando Iannucci

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur. — Gavin Newsom

Not if Their Party were waiting,
Not if to talk with Me
Were to Them now, Homesickness
After Eternity. — Emily Dickinson

An orange on the table
Your dress on the rug
And you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
Cool of night
Warmth of my life — Jacques Prevert

I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh. — Armando Iannucci

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect. — Wendelin Van Draanen

I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don't have a view on or don't believe in. Because I'm not a politician, I don't have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave. — Armando Iannucci

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind. — Shannon L. Alder

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan. — Armando Iannucci

Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses. — Kourtney Kardashian

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go. — Armando Iannucci

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something. — Armando Iannucci

All evening long, real snow would fall from the ceiling to glitter on the lashes of dancing girls and ardent boys, but Neve and the Dreamer didn't linger.
They had other things to do: *all* of them. All the things, dreamed and undreamed, in the depth and breadth of the whole spinning world. — Laini Taylor

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism! — Armando Iannucci

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of. — Armando Iannucci

I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I can, then I put them away for a month. So I couldn't even tell you what they are, or if they're good. I just assume they weren't. — Anthony Jeselnik

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. — Armando Iannucci

Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said. — Armando Iannucci

The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching. — Armando Iannucci

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there. — Armando Iannucci

I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch. — Armando Iannucci

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come. — Armando Iannucci

That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances. — Laozi

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation. — Armando Iannucci

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money. — Armando Iannucci

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. — John Oliver

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them. — Armando Iannucci

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people ... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak. — Armando Iannucci

I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible. — Armando Iannucci

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything. — Johan Santana

A man who doesn't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut. — Joe Abercrombie

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television. — Armando Iannucci

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions. — Armando Iannucci

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs. — Armando Iannucci

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh. — Armando Iannucci

I see exercise taking this perverted detour. The original intention of exercise was to heal and maintain health. Now I see it as having nothing to do with health. I see most exercises based on looking good. They actually make you less healthy. You overdevelop the obvious muscles. You take drugs to enhance that. You ignore the rest, and you become more out of balance. — Bryan Kest

Any performer tries to perform music as if for the first time, with all that energy and excitement that comes from discovering a new piece--maybe trying to recreate the memory of falling in love with a piece when hearing it first as a child--and just as people regularly say of a brilliant conductor that they seem to conduct as if recreating the energy an audience must have felt when the piece was first played decades, even centuries, before, so too I think we need to communicate our knowledge with the passion we first encountered as children. — Armando Iannucci

When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate. — Armando Iannucci

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day. — Mickey Gilley

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous. — Armando Iannucci

The end is built into the beginning. — Charlie Kaufman