Top 1200 Straight Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Man, to make the Hall would be incredible. I'd cry for, like, five weeks straight.

I am a straight, non-alcoholic, non-partying guy who speaks straight. I have no knowledge of literature. This is my language of communication, and what I see, what I observe, I reflect.

A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.

I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

Honestly, it was just tiring going straight from one show to the other. I filmed 'Iron Fist,' and then I had a two week break, and I went straight into 'The Defenders.'

Everybody likes new shoes! It is a new feeling, going onto the pitch, so it is great to be able to wear them straight out of the box. They are comfortable straight away and move with you. I could not do that with my old shoes. So every time I have a big match, I want new shoes straight out of the box.

I'll come in from a long flight and go straight to the grocery store. I love cooking for my man.

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

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds of risky behavior you stop once you feel death's cruel breath on your neck. I think that as a straight white man in particular, I was tempted to believe that I was immortal and eternal because, after all, in this culture, straight white dudes are the heroes of every story that you see or read about with very rare exception. So how could the story go on without the hero, you know?

I'd love to do a comedy. I'd love to do a two-hander like the old Leathal Weapon movies. I love those, like an action comedy with the straight man and the funny man. I'd love to do one of those. Just got to find one, find a funny man that wants to do one with me.

If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.

I’ve worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn’t be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.

Darius Rucker is straight up the most charming, handsome man you have ever met in your entire life.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

I believe gay, straight, anybody, everybody's supposed to be happy in this world, man.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, if you're straight with the press, they'll be straight with you.

The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I'm a straight shooter and that I'm a man of my word.

Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.

There's something problematic with this idea that straight men can be 'turned', and the binary of gay and straight and the lack of knowledge of the Kinsey scale.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

I'm a straight-talking person. Did I make mistakes, absolutely. But I enjoy being a straight-up guy today and in the future.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

At times, I find a degree of inflexibility in the more traditional homosexual community that seems to me to be every bit as 'straight' as straight.

I just absolutely go for it when somebody says, "No, you can't have this." That's why I spent my entire life sucking off straight men. "Okay, so you think you're straight, do you? We'll see about that."

I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.

When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of personal morality than some of our previous political leaders. What would I personally like to see? I would like to see this government go straight to hell. And I would have liked to have seen the previous government go straight to hell.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

I did, like, 30 or 40 commercials before 'Will & Grace' where I was the straight husband. I had two spots on the Super Bowl in 1998 where I was the straight dude.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'

Nothing scares a straight man more than a woman in her full glory.

I've committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.

Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

The last time a straight man worked in the fashion industry, we got a fanny pack.

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.

One of the amazing things about Spider-Man is that you don’t see skin colour when he’s in the suit. You don’t see any religious beliefs. A hero is a hero, whether you’re a man, woman, gay, lesbian, straight, black, white or red all over ? it doesn’t matter.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

I do everything by hand... Even if I'm doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the line and over the line and trying to make it straight, I'll never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.