Quotes of: Straight-man Keyword

Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.

Aarti Mann

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

Steve Guttenberg

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

Dan Butler

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

Dominic West

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

Roberto Cavalli

The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.

Rob Thomas

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

Martha Plimpton

Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.

In the beginning, Man Created God

Danny Riordan, Clermont Resident: Well, you know, Alvin, there's a lot of hills bigger than Clairmont's between here and Zion. Even if you get that mower running again, it might still break down. Alvin Straight: Well, you're a kind man talking to a s...

The Straight Story

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

Richard Ayoade

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Derek Jarman

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

Laurence Olivier

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Molloy

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Lillian Hellman

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

Anna Quindlen

That is, I fancy, the true doctrine on the subject of Tales of Terror and such things, which unless a man of letters do well and truly believe, without doubt he will end by blowing his brains out or by writing badly. Man, the central pillar of the wo...

G.K. Chesterton

Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love.

Tito Jackson

Five, six, seven eight-," Cecil grinned. "-Gay is just as good as straight," Dave said.

The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of

A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.

Harvey Korman

Hunger goes in a straight line, desire turns in circles.

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