Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Vorderman

I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.

Carlos Mencia

If you aren't laughing, you aren't living!

Alan King

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

Charlie Chaplin

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

Charlie Chaplin

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Charles Dickens

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

Ricky Gervais

Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.

Ricky Gervais

I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling?

Ricky Gervais

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

Charlie Cox

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

Edward Norton

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

Catherynne M. Valente

Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.

Connor Franta

I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are.

Billie Piper

I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.

Aidan Gillen

Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

Dawn Powell

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.

John Chandler

She was a lovely lady. It makes me feel sad but it was important to come because of the wedding.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Death devours all lovely things.

Bryan Adams

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

Alan Watts

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

Bruce Campbell

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

Charlie Munger

The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

Bob Saget

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

Bill Vaughan

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Edward Gorey

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Edward Gorey

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

Eddie Vedder

If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.