Peter Farrelly Quotes (19 Quotes)

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

There's two lines. There's a line that the critics will tell you is there. And then there's the real line. And the real line is what we go towards. We never cross that line. Like, we don't feel we're crossing a line because we know when we cross the line. That's when they don't laugh, because the audience won't laugh if it's truly mean-spirited.

Her idea of a perfect date is playing 36 holes, then going on to a ball game.

Just in time for the Sox to make another run.

I love Philip Roth, I love all his stuff.

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

As far as my brother and I, we are a great collaboration and it's fun to work with him, but it's also nice to get the hell away from him.

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

They're happy to be Siamese twins. They feel blessed. But the rest of us have to go through the world alone. And they don't. And because they have this great attitude, they have a lot of friends. They were the kings of the prom. You know, they were in the state championship hockey team. You know, they're the goalie. And it's just they're a couple of winners who happen to be Siamese twins.

I wanted this movie out there. It's very funny, but I also saw the potential for changing people's perceptions of people with intellectual disabilities.

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.

Acting is easy. Mainly because we have a lot of roles-and they're like our friends and they want to be in movies, so we put them in.

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.

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.

Fever Pitch was a modest hit in theatres, earning 42 million in the U.S. and Canada. The Farrellys expect to do better on DVD if this release follows the pattern of their other movies. We have done really well by DVD, ... For instance, Kingpin did not do well (25 million) and it was a smash hit on DVD. Check it out. It was the first movie that was ever No. 1 on DVD four weeks in a row that hadn't made at least 75 million. There's Something About Mary was a smash hit -- but it did way, way better on DVD. That's when the world sees it.

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.

We had to find a way to make this movie without giving away all creative rights to them. I became obsessed with getting it made because I saw that it was, on a lot of levels, groundbreaking.

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.

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