15 Quotes by Michael Crawford

I'm surprised. I know them to be very quiet, and everything is usually pretty peaceful.

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on - it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel - which makes it hard for young performers coming on.

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it’s better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

A joke isn’t a joke until someone laughs.