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He could lift that eyebrow, and I'd break up.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
If they ever do a film of my life—and I hope they won't—I'd like Dick to play me. He's one of the very, very few comedians around who knows how to use his body for real.comedy.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
I hope that the motto can be blue and grey, showing two derbies with these words superimposed: "Two Minds Without a Single Thought."
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
Comics today rely too much on the line gag and not the visual gag. I think that Hollywood comics these days are talking too much and not doing enough.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
He keeps imitating himself, but he has much talent and I think in time he will do first rate comedy. I hope so. But he he's going to have to learn artistic discipline.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
It has to be visual stuff. Too many radio writers are writing radio gags for television, which is a visual medium.
So terribly funny. He can still make me laugh like crazy after all these years.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
He and Jolson were wonderful entertainers the like of which you don't see anymore. They weren't comedians really, but funny singing entertainers of the kind I used to see and love in the English music hall. It's a shame that young performers these days aren't remotely like them.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
Another 'great,' and I use that word very carefully, not the way Milton Berle uses it. One of the reasons I love Buster so much is because he lives comedy as well as practices it. Some of his things are better than Chaplin's.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
I suppose we had very little of what you'd call family life. We were very seldom all together. I was almost always either in boarding school or living with my grandparents in Ulverston were I was born, but still, strange as it may seem, we were always a close family.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
We had different hobbies. He likes horses and golf. You know my hobby—and I married them all.
A real craftsman. He knows what consistent comedy characterization is. The only criticism I have is that once in a while he holds after his laughs too long. He milks those holds on occasion and he shouldn't.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1961)
If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again