Yakov Smirnoff Quotes

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Topics in Laughter, Love

• Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actors And Acting, Surprises

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crime

• We have a choice – we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Both

• In today’s society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Forget

• I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Been

• In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Only, Turn

• I fed my ego, but not my soul.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ego

• Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Same

• My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• It’s kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kind

• The ad in the paper said ‘Big Sale. Last Week.’ Why advertise? I already missed it. They’re just rubbing it in.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paper

• I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Only

• We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we’ve heard in fairy tales.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in After

• I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing – like showering.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

Yakov Smirnoff (20)

Birth:	24th January, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Comedian

About

Yakov "Soviet Russia" Smirnoff is a comedian who emigrated to America from the USSR. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the United States, delivered in heavily accented English.

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