I think laughter is a sacred act.
“I think laughter is a sacred act.”
— Tom Shadyac · Laughter
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I think laughter is a sacred act.
“I think laughter is a sacred act.”
— Tom Shadyac · Laughter
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“I think laughter is a sacred act.”
“The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.”
“Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'”
“The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.”
“There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.”
“My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.”
“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”
“I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.”
“People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'”
“All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.”
“I've always felt that desire. To get a woman to throw back her head in laughter is a hot thing.”
“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”