Deadpan Quotes

People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan. (J. G. Ballard)
Waldo Butters: Screw up my life? [He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan] Waldo Butters: I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow. [He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said] Waldo Butters: Do your worst. View quote
Jim Butcher
Nice blouse, Sage,” Adrian told me, deadpan. "It really brings out the khaki in your pants. View quote
Richelle Mead
Was he deadpan because he didn't care anymore? How much boredom can you meet in three hundred years? View quote
Larry Niven
As a protective mechanism, I developed a terse, cynical mode of speech that rebuffed those who sought to get too close to me. Conversation was my way of avoiding expression; my words were reserved for those times when I sat down alone to write. My face was always a deadpan or a mask of general friendliness; no word or event could jar me into a gesture of enthusiasm or despair. View quote
Richard Wright
So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever. View quote
Patrick Warburton
When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne. View quote
Aubrey Plaza
Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck. View quote
Kim Harrison
A second floor window opened, and Kyle stuck his head and shoulders out so he could look down at us. "If you two are finished playing Cowboy and Indian out there, some of us would like to get their beauty sleep.” I looked at Warren. "You heard ‘um Kemo Sabe. Me go to my little wigwam and get ‘um shut-eye.” "How come you always get to play the Indian?” whined Warren, deadpan. "Cause she's the Indian, white boy,” said Kyle. View quote
Patricia Briggs
You're not going to suck.'' ‘‘Not at the guitar, anyway,'' Shane said, deadpan. Claire punched him in the arm. ‘‘Ow. View quote
Rachel Caine
I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.' (Steven Wright)
I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it. View quote
Edward Ruscha
"There's been all kinds of confusion about the Leviticans. Some kind of imagined link to the Ku Klux Klan.” "Maybe it's because of the burning crosses,” Phil suggested, deadpan. "Supposedly the KKK burned crosses,” Ted said with a roll of the eyes. "There's no ‘supposedly' about it,” Anne-Solenne started in. "What are you even-” But Sophia silenced her with a hand on the arm. There was no point. "If that is even true, it has no connection to our burning crosses, which have a completely different significance,” Ted announced. View quote
Neal Stephenson