Stan Laurel Quotes

#1. I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Dick Van Dyke

#2. When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Dick Van Dyke

#3. The bright red sap of the fei plant is meant to be useful for blood ailments." "The signature of all things," Alma murmured.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Joyce Meyer

#5. I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

Stan Laurel

#6. Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stan Laurel

#7. I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.

Stan Laurel

#8. If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

Stan Laurel

#9. Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself.

John Piper

#10. What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.

Stan Laurel

#11. Only when she smiled at him was he finally able to relax.

Lauren Groff

#12. A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.

Stan Laurel

#13. If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

Stan Laurel

#14. If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again!

Stan Laurel

#15. Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.

Seth Adam Smith

#16. Another fine mess you've gotten me into.

Stan Laurel

#17. I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court.

Isaac Asimov

#18. Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.

Stan Laurel

#20. I feel like dying when I'm helpless

Stan Laurel

#21. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Cormac McCarthy