Laugh Quotes

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them.

And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Just look around; you can't help but laugh at something.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.