Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Merton

I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit of perfection, getting the gag right.

Ronald Biggs

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.

French Stewart

Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman while Buster Keaton wasn't.

Jack Reynor

I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

Tom Hank

He redefined comedy by defining the moment of our ascendancy as a generation. As did Charlie Chaplin , as did the Marx Brothers, as did Laurel and Hardy define their own times, Steve Martin defined ours.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

Chaplin is no businessman

Rob McClure

I'm not Charlie Chaplin and will never, ever claim to be. But when I become the 'Tramp,' I can feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Michel Hazanavicius

When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

Hillel Hillel

Every community has its stars, and in the community of Hillel in the former Soviet Union, Chaplin was definitely a star, ... Everybody knew him.

David Heymann

Hollywood was a silver-nitrate finishing school for a whole generation with a faculty that included Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino.

Oona Chaplin

As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.

Darren Boyd

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

Jonathan Banks

I honestly do feel - and I hope I don't gag anybody if they read this - but I feel like I'm one of the luckiest people in the world.

Source Unknown

Don't gag people with welfare, they'll never make an effort.

Jerry Weintraub

Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.

Phil Andrews

That's very unfortunate to have a gag order like that on an incredible resource for the police department.

Willie Garson

'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say.

Buster Keaton

We didn't stick to any format. We would just get an idea, and once you started on the idea it would lend itself to gags and natural trouble of any kind. There was no format.

Harry Reid

We're taking this step today because the global gag rule is an ill-conceived, anti-women, and anti-American policy.

Peter Riegert

I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

Suzanne Lloyd

He'd get so upset when he'd see Keaton do those movies, ... He'd ask, 'Why is he doing that?'

Wilhelm von Humboldt

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

Kevin Youkilis

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Dylan Brooks

It was a hobbyist pursuit that served a much narrower niche.

P. T. Barnum

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.

David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Aristotle

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Douglas Kennedy

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Truman Capote

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

Will Self

I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

Lauren Oliver

I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him.

R. A. Salvatore

As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went - indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.

Linda Evangelista

I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can't swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I'm better at controlling it.

Paul Dickson

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

John Hurt

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

John Dos Passos

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves

Lyndon B. Johnson

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

Rob Maxwell

It has worked out well in the past, and I don't see why it will be any different with Travis.

Jerry Schartner

Nothing worked for us, and they didn't miss.

Kevin Sutherland

It's worked out pretty good, but now I need the space.

Carolyn Clark

As you can see, you get really dirty. But you know you worked if you get dirty.

Gene Fraise

It's the same as it is at home. We've always worked together.

Shanna Zolman

There's a lot of things that need to be worked on before we get to where we need to be.

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Douglas Booth

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.