Michael Crawford Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
January 19, 1942

Michael Patrick Smith, CBE known by the professional stage name of Michael Crawford, is an English actor, comedian, singer, voice artist and philanthropist.

Also known as Comedian, Singer, Artist, Philanthropist

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.

Michael Crawford
- Sometimes
- Careers
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Crawford

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.

Michael Crawford
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.

Michael Crawford
A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

Michael Crawford
- Laughing
- Jokes