Laugh Quotes

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Making people laugh was automatic.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

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.

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.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

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.