Laugh Quotes

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

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.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

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.