- Nervous
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the script.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020