"If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating."

-- Paul Merton

#Cheating Quotes #Laughter Quotes #People Quotes

“I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.”
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
“I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.”
“Eat well, sleep and laugh. When you laugh, the lines go up instead of down.”
“When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.”
“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials...”
“I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.”

Source : Song: If the South Woulda Won
“I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.”

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