Stan Laurel Quotes
If any of you cry at my funeral, I`ll never speak to you again!
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.
(on Oliver Hardy`s death) The world has lost a comic genius. I`ve lost my best friend.
Crazy humor was always my type of humor, but it`s the quiet kind of craziness I like. The rough type of nut humor like The Marx Brothers I could never go for.
(about the eight films he and Oliver Hardy made at 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s) We had no say on those films, and it sure looked it.
Ben Shipman called me the day before and told me Babe had taken a turn for the worse and the end was expected any hours, even knowing this, the final news came as a shock to me. However, I think it was a blessing - poor fellow must have been really suffering (they discovered recently he had a bad cancer condition), so under the circumstances there was no hope of his ever recovering. What a tragic end to such a wonderful career.
Dick is a very clever comic, very talented, he does resemble me facially but thats about all, firstly, he is much taller and his mannerisms are entirely his own style. I enjoyed very much meeting him, a very interesting chap.
What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.
We had no say on those films, and it sure looked it.
Crazy humor was always my type of humor, but it`s the quiet kind of craziness I like. The rough type of nut humor like The Marx Brothers I could never go for.
The world has lost a comic genius. I`ve lost my best friend.
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.
