Laughter Quotes

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Laughter is God's blessing.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.