Paul B. Lowney quotes

Paul B. Lowney quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Laughter has no foreign accent.”
-- Paul B. Lowney

Source : Paul B. Lowney (1997). “Toads”, Crown & Lurie Pub

#Laughter Quotes #Accents Quotes

“After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.”
“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.”
“In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.”
“What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.”
“I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.”
“The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.”
“Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.”
“I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I havent lost my culture, just my accent.”

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