Stan And Laurel Quotes & Sayings

Being in love is the only transcendent experience. — Armistead Maupin

I feel like dying when I'm helpless — Stan Laurel

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again. — Stan Laurel

Another fine mess you've gotten me into. — Stan Laurel

After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited
long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms
what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true 'calling. — Alain De Botton

I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep. — Stan Laurel

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

It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be - for what sake? Not health, not survival, no enjoyment of life but just so you could look pretty. I'm constantly telling girls all the time, 'Everything's airbrushed, everything's retouched. None of us look like that. — Rosario Dawson

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height. — Casey Stengel

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead. — Stan Laurel

You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff. — Alison Goldfrapp

One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy. — Dick Van Dyke

If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again! — Stan Laurel

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

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

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. — Erma Bombeck

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth. — Stan Laurel

I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin. — Stan Laurel

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. — Hermann Hesse

Self-doubt is a disease. And if it gets out of control, it becomes self-fulfilling. — John Flanagan

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

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