Charles Laughton Quotes

#1. Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton

Lou Lumenick

#2. What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

Jack Davenport

#3. Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

Maureen O'Hara

#4. I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

Charles Laughton

#5. What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#6. Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.

Charles Laughton

#7. Life comes at you hard and fast, it doesn't slow for anybody. It weathers you, destroys you. It breaks down your mind, body, and soul until there's nothing left. Then what?

Skyla Madi

#8. Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is ... well, an umpire.

Ron Luciano

#9. Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it ... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.

Charles Laughton

#10. They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

Charles Laughton

#11. Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.

Pierre Charron

#12. She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.

Sarah Addison Allen

#13. The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.

Steve Sabol

#14. We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

Anthony Kiedis

#15. I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids through it, and it was pretty social for me.

David Lambert