Laughton Quotes & Sayings

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned her cheeks: a few poor tears shed by one who never cried! — Francois Mauriac

Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton — Lou Lumenick

Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut. — Charles Laughton

His mother had said that men were handsome and women beautiful, but after seeing Benjamin swimming and then lying on his blanket, David knew his mother was completely wrong - Benjamin was beautiful. — Geoff Laughton

People can believe in their own progress and success. They can even believe in strangers success. But when it comes to success of anyone from their social circle, they think, it must be by fluke and the other person doesn't deserve it. — Shon Mehta

The first heartbreak is the hardest one, because you don't know what to expect," Lynn told him, and David knew she was speaking from experience. "It will get better, I promise. You just have to give it time. — Geoff Laughton

I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man. — Karen Allen

We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' . — Ingmar Bergman

They can't censor the gleam in my eye. — Charles Laughton

I have a face like the behind of an elephant. — Charles Laughton

What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors. — Jack Davenport

Suffering sweetens the reward — F.E. Higgins

Your brain - not accustomed to nonuniform gravities - thinks you're standing on a gentle slope. — Randall Munroe

My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too. — Douglas Alexander

Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it ... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there. — Charles Laughton

There are a lot of people who have a high IQ, but if they don't work hard, then their intelligence does them absolutely no good. Average people win by putting in an above-average effort. — Eric Laughton

Walt had a way of communicating that was just magical," composer Richard Sherman told me. "Simple, but magical. He would give you a challenge and say, 'I know you can do this.' He made you believe anything was possible. He made you proud to be on his team. And it really was a team effort - Walt would roll up his sleeves and go to work alongside the rest of us. "He saw potential in people who had never really done anything great. My brother Robert and I really had no track record in the music industry, but Walt heard a few of our songs and he gave us an opportunity and inspired us to keep topping ourselves. Without Walt to inspire us, I don't know where we'd be today. "Walt always wanted you to find something wonderful in yourself, to believe in it and consider it God's gift to you. God gives you the gift, and the rest is up to you. Walt taught me that what you do with that gift is your gift back to God. — Pat Williams

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for. — Douglas MacArthur

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me. — Maureen O'Hara

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange — Percy Bysshe Shelley

First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human kind. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late (British actor) Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is you.' — Matthew McConaughey

Without love, life is unsustainable. — Debasish Mridha

It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement. — Chris Martin

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio. — Brian Cox

A friend ... sort of. Ren watches me like I'm a cookie jar he wouldn't mind being caught with his hands in. — Andrea Cremer

The people say what they like and then I do what I like — Frederick The Great

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. — Gene Tierney