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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the read more
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.
Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
I love to go to the schoolyard and watch the children jump and scream, but they don't know I'm using read more
I love to go to the schoolyard and watch the children jump and scream, but they don't know I'm using blanks.
Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which read more
Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. read more
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.