#ace

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again. ↗

— Stan Laurel

#anyone #face #funeral #him #i

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#contact #distant #guess #i #life

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#camera #director #exciting #i #place

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#could #ease #embrace #ever #good

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#comfort #economy #embrace #happiness #i

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#again #agent #called #dropped #fireplace

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#always #any #been #canada #family

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#beauty #believes #centuries #considered #does

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#british #could #europe #feel #german

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#because #chance #comic #comic writing #dramatic