Breaking the Fourth Wall/Quotes

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Stephen Colbert: I sometimes feel that my movements are being watched by otherworldly beings just beyond the veil of my perception.
Neil Gaiman: Possibly on the other side of a giant television screen? I have that too.

Empowered: We'd better let that poor, abused Fourth Wall recover from all the breakage we've inflicted on it...!

Hey! Yeah, you! I'm down here, busting my ass, while you sit on yours watching me jump around? How is that fair?

I love what you've done with the place. Had the wall removed and all these people put in!

The truth was a burning green crack through my brain. Weapon statistics hanging in the air, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. Endless repetition of the act of shooting, time slowing down to show off my moves. The paranoid feel of someone controlling my every step. I was in a computer game. Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.

"You know," Kasumi said to no one in particular as she started clearing the table, "I always did think Ranma and Ryoga looked quite a lot alike."
"Yeah," Nabiki concurred, "but I always thought that was just the art style."
"Hush, Nabiki," chided Kasumi, "Takahashi-sama might hear you."
"Oh, right, like she actually reads this stuff..."
"Would you two stop tearin' down the fourth wall and get back to the story?!" Ranma shouted.

—from The Importance of Being Ranma by SMoonUsagi & RyogaLost

A fourth-wall break inside a fourth-wall break! That's like, sixteen walls!

—Deadpool, Deadpool
"Excuse me! You there choosing the commands! Yes! You! Even if you're fine with it, I shall absolutely not become this perv's girlfriend! Got it?!"
Yui Mizuhara calling the player out for selecting the "Date Him" option before the Wonder Man Dibot rematch in Battle Golfer Yui

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