If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.
The lemonade is weak, like your soul.
The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.
We've had a steady diet of that PG-13 entertainment. It's the best vanilla you can buy. It's delicious, but it's getting kind of samey.
I'm pretty bland. I'm not a big decorator.
My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.
I like Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy who comes with the picture frame.
[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.
Plane food is terrible.
Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
A third rate nonentity whose only recommendation is that he is obnoxious to no one.
Referring to Rutherford B. Hayes and his Republican nomination for president:
To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.
I really cringe at the sight of pattypan squash. So pretty and cute and having no taste or exciting texture. Dull.
I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.
There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.
I'm the type of person that you'd walk past and go, 'I think I went to school with her,' or 'I know her and I can't quite place it.' It certainly isn't, 'I know her full name, and I can tell you who she is.'
I'm not glamorous and a bit bland, but I think that's my strength. That may be a reason behind what people say is my good chemistry with many actors.
You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different.
Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.
I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
Simple syrup doesn't taste like anything.
People see me, and they think they went to college with me; there's no immediate identification.