I think one of my first jokes – in the black community, there’s people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, ‘You so black, you purple.’ ‘You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.’
I cry at anything remotely touching – smile at me warmly and I’m off… television also does it, everything from ‘X-Factor’ to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.
Arnold Palmer has what I call an ‘Eisenhower smile’. Those two men, they’d smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
I love to smile. I love to laugh. I like to hear jokes. For instance, when I’m on the road, every night I watch ‘Seinfeld.’ I find it somewhere. I think it’s so funny, and I watch the repeats over and over again.
It’s true that a smile can take years off a person – not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono’s case.
My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics – pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, ‘Make sure you always smile – it makes everything look better!’
Obama’s stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.
The spotlight, attention, all that doesn’t really matter. You go home to your daughter, even after a loss when you’re upset and you don’t want to talk to anybody. You see her crack that smile, and it changes your day.
Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I’m just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren’t meant to be worshipped at a church altar.
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
Y’know, smile, dance, get crazy… we sure do while we’re making it, because music is our leeezshure; it’s my fun.
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that’s when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry.
The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
I can remember being a kid and watching Vanilla Ice and it made me smile… I love it. I love that. I can remember seeing Vanilla Ice and then through time he stopped being Vanilla Ice.
If my life and music brings a smile or makes a difference in any individual’s life, then there is nothing beyond for me as a god’s gift.
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there’s nothing left but Peter Martins’ smile.
I receive kindness every day. I love to smile when I’m out and about, and if someone smiles back, which happens about half the time, I think that’s an act of kindness every couple of minutes in my day.
I like being able to look in the mirror and seeing a smile on my face.
If you don’t like your job, then change it by getting some better skills. Until then, shut up and get my burger with a smile, like in the commercials.
When you’re watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you’ve found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren’t the same exact experience.
I always like to spend time with the kids, especially with kids who need help. For them and for the parents, to see their smile is always nice.
Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: ‘Smile, do well in school, don’t take too many risks.’
There’s a different expectation, not just on mothers but on women. We’re expected to do it all, to have it all, and look good through the process and have a smile on our face, and that’s not always the case.
I guess the news is this: If you’re a Republican and you smile, liberals don’t like it. Maybe that’s because Democrats are afraid that I’ve been able to show an optimistic vision for this country.
