"Life is serious but art is fun!"
— John Irving

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality."
— Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House)

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."
— Alfred Hitchcock

"Let no one say it
(And say it to your shame)
That all was beauty here
Until you came"
— Val Lewton

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
— Walt Disney Company

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
— Will Rogers

"Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)"
— Titus Maccius Plautus

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. "
— Marcel Marceau

"Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony."
— Peter Cook

"Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie."
— Peter Cook

"I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again."
— Peter Cook

"When you do something well, you do not do it for free."
— Joker, 2008

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead"
— Samuel Goldwyn

"You've got to take the bitter with the sour."
— Samuel Goldwyn

"If any of you cry at my funeral
I'll never speak to you again."
— Stan Laurel

"As long as there is death, there is hope
"
— Brother Theodore

"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
— Oscar Levant

"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
"
— Oscar Levant