I don’t ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.
Action is a universal language, so everyone understands a punch and a kick.
I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.
One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.
I’d been in my share of fights but never thrown the first punch, and I’m not quick to anger.
Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected – whether it’s movies or people or relationships. I’m always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.
Micro humor is a joke that’s contained in the writing: it’s a punch line, it’s a turn of phrase, it’s something that you can see on the page, and no matter who’s saying it, it is, in and of itself, a funny line.
I never direct myself, because I don’t like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.
I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, ‘Oh I’m the fat, funny one,’ because that’s what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.
The World Cup ball is very fast, and you need to think very quickly, when to punch and when to catch.
Everyone’s a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face.
I’d rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.
I punch a lot of guys on set. It’s much easier than in real life as your hands don’t hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.
GIFs work because the punch line is instantaneous. It’s entirely different from almost any other form of content on the Internet, which takes time to consume.
Seriously, I faced a lot of anti-Semitism playing hockey as a kid. It motivated me to play well and to punch everyone who was anti-Semitic. I was taunted and called names. I’d either beat them with a goal or with my fists.
I must have read every issue of ‘Punch’ published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour – that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like ‘Three Men in a Boat.’
Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on those terms rather than ‘We gotta just punch it week to week, man.’ Now they’re like, ‘What will happen if someone watches the entire show?’
They can be King Kong, Godzilla, or whatever – I don’t care what they have. Once you get a punch in the face or a knee in the head, all of those skills are gone.
When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn’t seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love.
I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn’t even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.
The funny thing is, I’ve never really hurt myself in an action movie. I’ve done ‘Wanted,’ ‘X-Men,’ ‘Welcome To The Punch,’ even ‘Trance’ to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I’ve never really hurt myself at all – not even like a sprained ankle.
I don’t ever want to be a punch drunk.
I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I’ve had a lot of therapy and I’ve figured a lot of things out.
I feel like I’m small and mighty and pack a powerful punch, just like Tide PODS.
Everyone knows my style – I jam my hips in, jam their head into the mat and punch their head through the canvas.
For a gut punch of nostalgia, consider that Saturday morning cartoons are now largely a thing of the past.
However much a president wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked out with a single punch. A president must work with the problem as much as against it, turn it into a solution if she can.
I’m a comedian. I want you to laugh. That’s my main goal. I punch things up to get things tighter, quicker and get you to the joke faster.
These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.
At the end of the day, when you’re dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. When you’ve got a big heavyweight who has knockout power, anything’s possible.
One thing I’ve always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the first punch; you don’t get punched first. It’s the same on defense: You’ve got to hit first. Do your work early. That’s what I was always taught. If you don’t do your work early, you’re done.
I don’t mind what people say about me as long as it’s an opinion or the truth. If someone says, ‘He’s the worst comedian in the world,’ that’s fine. If someone says, ‘His face makes me want to punch the TV,’ that’s fine. But if they say, ‘Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,’ I go: no, no, no… that’s a lie.
I was training in an old garage – just a roof. And when its snowed, it would cover the floor, so I would have to clear this first. I didn’t have a punch bag. There was no place to buy it, so I managed to get a speed ball, but it didn’t have the swivel mechanism, so I just nailed it to the ceiling and started kicking.
You would have to go really crazy on me before I throw a punch.
Even if things are going well, I’m always thinking that I’m about to be hit with the dreaded gut punch and – psych! – I’ll find out that it’s all falling apart.
I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.
New York City is a very tough place. I’m tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.
My works were not – and they still aren’t – single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don’t draw them.
I don’t think people can watch University of Texas basketball or football games with me – really, anything Texas is playing – without wanting to punch me in the face. I’m as big a Longhorn fan as you’ll find.
Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.
The unfortunate part about trial by fire in fighting is that people punch you in the face.
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You’re a part of that experience.
Toum is a staple of Lebanese cuisine, and more than just another condiment. This garlic sauce is great for stirring into soups and pasta, marinating chicken, and tossing with roasted vegetables; it adds an energetic punch of garlic to anything without requiring the hassle of peeling and mincing.
I used to break glasses and punch people in ‘Ek Hasina Thi,’ but it was all pardoned as my character was negative.
Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.
I have a stunt double. His name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously – it’s actually been recorded by National Geographic. He calls it the Hammer Fist. And he’s my stunt double! He makes me look awesome.
I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of ‘Patch Adams’ again. The title of this movie should have been ‘Punch Adams!’
I did a play, back in the day, called ‘Sucker Punch,’ and it meant so much for me. I was 21. And I went, ‘I just want to do work like that.’ Stuff I believe in. And when I have compromised, I’ve never really felt good about it.
Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it’s a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, ‘Why is our band sometimes a punch line?’
When I walked in on ‘Drag Race’ and saw Katya, I had no idea she was gonna be funny, because she was stunning. She had this perfect red lip, I remember looking into her eyes and being like, ‘This is a woman!’ Then she was really funny. She kind of presents normal, and it’s a one-two punch with the comedy.
My skin issues started with dry flaky skin as a child. It was a sucker punch to my confidence.
I’m very proud of ‘Calvary.’ It’s been doing well; it has legs. It’s no easy ride. It packs a punch, this one.
I relish any chance to punch A.J. Styles in the face, because he’s a man I respect greatly. And I find that I want to punch people in the face that I respect greatly. I like to say it’s an island thing, but it’s not: it’ just something that I like doing.
Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.
