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Smiling Quotes

Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you’d just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding ‘Keep smiling – Fyodor.’

– Howard Jacobson

I suppose it’s easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it’s also quite gratifying to play.

– Ian McDiarmid

Keep smiling – it takes 10 years off!

– Jane Birkin

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as ‘humorist’ Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he’s calling Mexicans ‘stupid.’ Or it’s a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a ‘racialist’ which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

– John Ridley

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

– James Larkin

When you can see kids smiling, that’s one of the best things. That’s why I did ‘Narnia.’

– James McAvoy

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

– Isaac Barrow

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.

– Joan Rivers

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

– Alex Ebert

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.

– Jane Smiley

When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.

– Allen Funt

I’m a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

– Andy Samberg

I haven’t mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

– Ashley Wagner

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it’s hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.

– Charlie Hunnam

Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.

– Carlos Santana

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

My mother’s career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone’s buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

– Carrie Fisher

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

– Gabrielle Union

Smiling makes you and others feel better, and it makes you look younger.

– Marie Helvin

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

– Edward Carpenter

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

– Elizabeth Bowen

I don’t smile much, and I never laugh. If you’d been through what I’ve been through, you wouldn’t be smiling, either.

– Charlie Sifford

The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

– Penelope Cruz

People don’t know what it’s like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

– Dave Chappelle

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn’t be seen on film – so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I’m smiling and laughing like mad!

– David Prowse

Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!

– Dwight Schultz

I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don’t care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you’re going to be down in a second.

– Nadia Comaneci

I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.

– Ellie Goulding

Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side.

– Norman Davies

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.

– Michael Kelly

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