Quotes About Laughter

I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.

I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

'QI' is exactly what the best TV ought to be - you learn something, but you are also crying with laughter.

Laughter cures everything.

I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything.

I have the curse of thinking funny!

Comedy is here to bring joy to the world, whether you want to hear the curse words or not.

We've always been interested in the commentary on politics and society and how comedy always sort of cuts that with a nice laugh, and the perspective it brings.

The more time I was spending with the British team, the more of a laugh I was having with them. It's clean, their way of cycling; it's more about what you can produce as an athlete.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.

I laugh at myself on a daily basis.

My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.

When the kids come home, we get back into the same routines: Sitting around the table, flipping grief to each other and laughing about it.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing.

Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

Life is not to be taken seriously.

I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up.