Quotes About Amusement

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't really have any hang ups about, 'Oh, I can't do this again. I've done this already.' It was just a project I was working on for my own amusement.

She has such a nice sense of rumor.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

It has been said that work is the highest form of play.

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.

Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of the world we must be the focus of bitter amusement, characters in a satire we don't understand. It is British people that don't learn languages, or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal.

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.

I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.

Demon's Roost is a paean to pleasure, a twenty-four-hour-a-day bacchanalia that makes Las Vegas look like a kindergarten playground. It's an adults-only amusement park which contains such a dazzling scope and variety of decadence and perversity that it might give Caligula himself pause.

The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

The only difference between a comedian and someone else? We need to make people laugh more.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.