"It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy."

-- Tony Hancock

#Two Quotes #Ingredients Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.”

Source : Jan de Hartog (1979). “THE LAMB'S WAR”
“A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.”
“I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.”
“I live quite an unsettled life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.”
“Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.”
“But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.”
“I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.”

Source : "Nick Flynn on Fatherhood, Suicide, Torture, Love, and Being Lost". Interview with Tom Matlack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 09, 2010.

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