Quotes About Laughs

Man plans, and god laughs. Like the ant and the grasshopper.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Halloween.

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.

Anyone who thinks 'Modern Times' has got a big message is just putting it there himself. Charlie knew that the pressures of modern life and factory life would be good for a lot of laughs, and that's why he did the film - not because he wanted to diagnose the industrial revolution.

'Hustle' is wonderfully enjoyable because all my life, I've made an effort to be with people who can make me laugh. That original cast - Marc Warren, Jaime Murray, Robert Glenister and Adrian Lester - are all funny. So I know every day I'll have a few good laughs.

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

step out of the forest and onto a road, stepping into Technicolor. Even Ruth laughs. What's a road doing in a place so lost? We kick the dirt of it for a moment, testing its material. "You know where this leads eventually?" I ask her. She raises her brow, and I'm about to say a McDonald's equipped with free Wi-Fi, but that seems mean. I look back into the forest. We both do, but the path we walked is already gone forever.

My first time on stage was the class "graduation" at the Comedy Store. It was awesome. Everything got huge laughs and I just thought I knew how to do comedy.

Time ever mocks all youthful hopes; He laughs at ever plan youth makes; He buries fame and honor deep In grave of hope--too late youth wakes.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

Hardship is boring as hell. Gotta find laughs if you can't stay drunk.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

My mom was like, 'You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don't you just join the play or something?' It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

Ah, 'Kismet,' or Carry On Camel, as we called it. I thought the show was shocking. It was the worst designed production ever but it's got a fantastic score. It's not an awfully good book though. You really have to work hard to eke out any laughs from that script.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

Man plans and God laughs," Myron said. Fat Gandhi smiled. "I like that one. Is that an American expression?" "Yiddish.

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

People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.

Yiddish proverb: Man plans, God laughs.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.