Laughton Quotes

#1. I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.

Karen Allen

#2. All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

Richard Dawkins

#3. The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Johannes Kepler

#4. In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. Never show a weapon before you have to use it

Amy Tan

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

Charles Laughton

#7. I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a metaphor - that it can never be simple as looking at you and saying yes, yes, yes.

Shinji Moon

#8. His mother had said that men were handsome and women beautiful, but after seeing Benjamin swimming and then lying on his blanket, David knew his mother was completely wrong - Benjamin was beautiful.

Geoff Laughton

#9. 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

#10. Tactical engagement principle number one is if you don't have a clear and decisive objective the operation becomes disconnected and unfocused.

Patricia Cornwell

#11. There are a lot of people who have a high IQ, but if they don't work hard, then their intelligence does them absolutely no good. Average people win by putting in an above-average effort.

Eric Laughton

#12. So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.

Frank Lebby Stanton

#13. I've traveled all over the world and America is the easiest place to get rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Charles Laughton

#15. You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

Fawn Weaver

#16. For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

Norah Jones

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

Charles Laughton

#18. The first heartbreak is the hardest one, because you don't know what to expect," Lynn told him, and David knew she was speaking from experience. "It will get better, I promise. You just have to give it time.

Geoff Laughton

#19. 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

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

Jack Davenport

#21. There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

Grace Paley

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

Maureen O'Hara