"Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter."

Art, Comedy, Laughter

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"Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter."

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"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."

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"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."

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"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."

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"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."

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"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."

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"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

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"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."

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"Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business."

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"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."

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"Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter."

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