#om

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#comedy #comics #executive #executive producer #got

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#comedian #comedy #father #figure #funny

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.' ↗

— Carol Leifer

#always #anything #because #been #breaking

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#comedy #cry #difficult #easier #i

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#different #different kinds #experience #find #guess

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#comes #creeps #million #movies #obsession

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#beautiful #beautiful woman #cooper #diana #edith

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#i #noise #stand #take #would

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#i #lines #must #never #say

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#audience #because #come #get #give