Laughs Quotes

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.

We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

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

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us.

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.