Laurel And Hardy Quotes:

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

- Norman Wisdom

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nice, Laurels, Laurel And Hardy

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

- John Lennon

source: BBC interview with David Wigg, May 8, 1969.

topic: Kings, People, Serious, Hardy, Laurel And Hardy

I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

- Steve Martin

source: "Steve Martin Memoir Recalls A Past Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2009.

topic: School, Laughing, Bedroom, Marty, Skit

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

- Stephen Lang

topic: Tv Shows, Robins, Rama, Laurel And Hardy, Robin Hood

When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.

- David Chase

source: "Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

topic: Cousin, Kids, Thinking, Extremely Funny, Hardy

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Home, Kids, Comedian, Chaplin, Laurel And Hardy

Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.

- Billy Crystal

source: Source: www.scene-stealers.com

topic: New York, Growing Up, Kids, Laurel And Hardy

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

- John Cleese

source: "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

topic: Eye, Hands, Comedian, Laurel And Hardy, Busters

I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.

- Walt Disney

topic: Thinking, Knowing, Example, Hardy, Laurel And Hardy

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.

- Will Smith

source: Source: www.getreadytorock.com

topic: Dad, Perfect Days, Comedian, Laurel And Hardy

I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Nuts, Play, Ties, Hardy, Derby