"Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home."

--

Source : Elsa Lanchester (1938). “Charles Laughton and I”, Harcourt, Brace and company

Elsa Lanchester

#Home Quotes #Suicidal Quotes #Comedian Quotes

“Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.”
“The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.”
“Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'”
“My only hope was to be polite.”
“People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.”
“The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.”
“There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.9, Broadview Press

You may also like:

Bela Lugosi
Actor
Billy Wilder
Filmmaker
Boris Karloff
Actor
Charles Laughton
Film actor
Glynis Johns
Film actress
James Coco
Character actor
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Film actor
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Novelist
Tyrone Power
Film actor