Top 29 Quotes About Laurel And Hardy
#1. When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.
David Chase
#2. I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.
Will Smith
#3. You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
Danny DeVito
#4. I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.
Stephen Lang
#5. When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
Dick Van Dyke
#6. Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.
John Cleese
#7. I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.
Steve Martin
#8. I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.
Walt Disney
#9. I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.
Dick Van Dyke
#10. I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.
Steve Martin
#11. Jeez, we haven't even slept together and already you don't trust me."
"I've known you all your life not to mention the fact that my idiot sister is in the next room and when you two get together it's like Laurel and Hardy do Denver.
Kristen Ashley
#12. It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.
Norman Wisdom
#13. I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
Alan Hansen
#14. Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Robert Frost
#15. Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.
Oliver Hardy
#17. Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!
Terry Wogan
#18. We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#19. Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
Ambrose Bierce
#20. Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
Samuel Johnson
#21. 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
#22. Ah, now I have learned how deep in the human heart vanity lies, vanity which is the other face of the fear of being unloved.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#23. What, you can read Lucifer's mind now?" I asked. "No, he sent me a message on Facebook," Beezle said. "I don't even want to know what Lucifer is doing on Facebook," I said. "Reposting pictures, like everyone else," he said.
Christina Henry
#24. I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.
Guy Lafleur
#25. Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please.
Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.
Juliet Marillier
#26. You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
Stan Laurel
#27. Well, if she was dumb enough to marry you, she'll believe anything.
Oliver Hardy
#28. Never send a man where you can send a bullet.
Ian Fleming
#29. It's the intoxication of nirvana. That's how you get us to endure this life. You promise us heaven, don't you? But what do you know of our hell?
Hugh Howey
