Harold Lloyd Quotes

Comedy comes from inside. It comes from your face. It comes from your body.

I do not believe the public will want spoken comedy. Motion pictures and the spoken arts are two distinct arts.

(when asked why he abandoned his Lonesome Luke character and that type of character) Charlie (Charles Chaplin) had the market cornered on that. He had it down to a science.

(when asked whether the transition from silents to sound made any problems because of his voice, as with so many other stars from the era) I had to work a little on my voice because I hadn`t used it for years. I went to a voice coach for about five days, and then he said, "Good-bye, you just weren`t using it right".

In a feature picture I like quite well, the one in which I`m hanging on a clock, Safety Last! (1923), and which is probably one of our most popular, we did the final scenes of that climb first. We didn`t know what we were going to have for the beginning of it. We hadn`t made up the opening and after we found that we had, in our opinion, a very, very good thrill sequence, something that was going to be popular and bring in a few shekels, we went back and figured out what we would do for a beginning, and then worked on up to what we already had.

(in 1970) My humor was never cruel or cynical. I just took life and poked fun at it. We made it so it could be understood the world over, without language barriers. We seem to have conquered the time barrier, too.

(on his horn-rimmed glasses) At a cost of 75 cents they provide a trademark recognized instantly wherever pictures are shown.

(on Bebe Daniels) She`s a wonderful individual and I can understand why she`s tremendously revered in Great Britain. She`s very warm-hearted and she has a habit of giving -- never lost it!

In a feature picture I like quite well, the one in which I`m hanging on a clock, Safety Last! (1923), and which is probably one of our most popular, we did the final scenes of that climb first. We didn`t know what we were going to have for the beginning of it. We hadn`t made up the opening and after we found that we had, in our opinion, a very, very good thrill sequence, something that was going to be popular and bring in a few shekels, we went back and figured out what we would do for a beginning, and then worked on up to what we already had.

(in 1970) My humor was never cruel or cynical. I just took life and poked fun at it. We made it so it could be understood the world over, without language barriers. We seem to have conquered the time barrier, too.

(when asked why he abandoned his Lonesome Luke character and that type of character) Charlie (Charles Chaplin) had the market cornered on that. He had it down to a science.

I do not believe the public will want spoken comedy. Motion pictures and the spoken arts are two distinct arts.

(when asked whether the transition from silents to sound made any problems because of his voice, as with so many other stars from the era) I had to work a little on my voice because I hadn`t used it for years. I went to a voice coach for about five days, and then he said, "Good-bye, you just weren`t using it right".

Comedy comes from inside. It comes from your face. It comes from your body.

(on Bebe Daniels) She`s a wonderful individual and I can understand why she`s tremendously revered in Great Britain. She`s very warm-hearted and she has a habit of giving -- never lost it!

(on his horn-rimmed glasses) At a cost of 75 cents they provide a trademark recognized instantly wherever pictures are shown.