Peter Mayle Quotes

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

You don't need the right facts if you have the right inflection.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

And happiness is always louder than sadness.

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

To laugh is proper to man.

Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.

I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

She laughed, and the desert sang.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.