“I don't believe there is any finer mission on earth than just to make people laugh.”
Interview (1916) http://www.2020site.org/fattyarbuckle/fatty.html
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American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenw… 1887–1933Related quotes
“I think a comedian's job isn't just to make people laugh. I think it's to make people think.”
At Piers Morgan Tonight, 2011
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V
Context: I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth — it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. I have seen it in such full perfection that I cannot believe that it is impossible for people to have it.
“I like people. They're entertaining. I just may laugh at different things than most people.”
As quoted in An Interview with Jim Carrey: We talk to the comedy mastermind about his most reserved performance http://movies.ign.com/articles/498/498545p1.html by Jeff Otto IGN (12 March 2004)
Context: I like people. They're entertaining. I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
Radio broadcast (March 21, 1943), cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 21 ISBN 1586486381
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.”
