Quotes About Humor

Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.

One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, 'Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.' That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, 'Are you going to finish that sandwich?'

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We'd sit around the dinner table and try to one-up each other. It sometimes ended in tears, but usually in laughter.

He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

Personally, I just tease people a lot.

My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.

People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

My siblings would tease me and call me big friendly or freaky giant, and later, when I was approached about modeling, they would joke, 'The BFG is gonna be a model? That clunky thing?' They know how to keep me in check all right.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don't mind you using it, but at least give it a name.' When he hits it, the announcers just say, 'Well, he just hit that... thing.'

At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.

I was a fat kid. I can laugh now. But I got teased about being an Oompa Loompa and stuff like that.

I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.