Quotes About Laughter

I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done.

I can't do without playing pranks.

Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.

You pray for days when the crappie fishing is so relentlessly good that you're giggling like a kid and the only things you're lacking in life are another stringer and an extra hour on the water. But what do you do with that pile of freshly caught crappies spilling out of your cooler? Call your pals for a mega-fry.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.

I know that money is precious - but, at least to me, laughter and expression are even more so.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

My favourite chant is 'you're just a fat Eddie Murphy.' When I heard that I could not stop laughing. I would prefer a 'muscular Eddie Murphy.'

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

I was at a premiere, and these girls blurted out, 'We love your hair!' That made me laugh.

My father passed away when I was 12, so it was very difficult. But I was always the class clown. I don't know why - maybe as an escape. But then I was sent away to military prep school.

You don't need preparations for a family gathering. We have one almost every night where we meet, laugh, get drunk and come back home. We're one family that's happy among ourselves.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

Some people just want to make up the funny things and play pretend.

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.

I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

I still like to think I have a pretty good laugh with the other guys in the dressing room and still enjoy a beer and the odd night out.

I actually have a pretty good sense of humor.

You can't hate the person next to you when you're laughing and dancing together.

I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.

I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism.

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.