Quotes About Amusement

It's very rare to be able to do a show where the most important thing is being funny.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

I'm a goof, man.

I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up.

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

It's great fun to try to entertain.

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.

I guess I'm attracted to things that are fun. I guess what is fun about this role in 'Suburgatory' is that there's a lot of room to play around.

I was shot from the funny gun.

Ah, you wouldn't be bored with me! I have more than one trick up my sleeve, not counting card tricks. . . . But you'd have fun with me! There's no one like me. . . there's no like me, for example, when it come to ventriloquism.

Thereupon we all four left the office. Richard and I had 'never laughed so much in our lives.

An easily manipulated population that cares mostly for its own amusement may be more ready for tyranny (which can keep the masses happy with bread and circuses) than for the arduous responsibilities of self-government.

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw. He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.