Hal Roach Quotes

#1. I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

Billy Crystal

#2. The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

Hal Roach

#3. Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.

John Spratt

#4. People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not the only place that has experienced both persecution and destruction The reason Nagasaki is famous, is because it is rebuilt, because it has always survived.

Takashi Nagai

#5. The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

Hal Roach

#6. There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

Angelo Dundee

#7. And if it be true that it is one of the tokens of the fully developed mind that it does not think specially or separately of sex, how much harder it is to attain that condition now than ever before ... No age can ever have been as stridently sex-conscious as our own ...

Virginia Woolf

#8. Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

Noel Gallagher

#9. You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.

Hal Roach

#10. The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels; I don't care who it was.

Hal Roach

#11. You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

Hal Roach

#12. My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

Hal Roach

#13. Feedback is crucial. That's obvious: It improves performance, develops talent, aligns expectations, solves problems, guides promotion and pay, and boosts the bottom line.

Anonymous

#14. Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

Hal Roach

#15. Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

Hal Roach