Hattie Morahan Quotes

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

I always want to go to the movies and watch something and be moved by something or feel things.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

Children are funny.

I love to create and play, I can't stop, hahaha!

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.