Quotes About Laughter

Our comedy is just falling over, funny faces, arguments, all the comedy basics, really.

Especially in these times of austerity and the world feels like it's falling apart, it's good for people to have a laugh.

I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down.

My granddad doesn't care if he falls down when he's singing, he's just having a laugh.

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

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.

I get racist letters all the time from people who aren't Bradford City supporters. You just laugh at them, tear them up and throw them in the bin.

With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter is key. If they shed a tear or go home thinking about the play, that's a bonus.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

I like hanging with my family and helping them on their way however I can. There's a new tragicomedy every half-hour, there is laughter, there are tears, and it's all real. They are endlessly entertaining, they have given me so much, they've given me a chance to 'see' things again.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.

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.

If I can bring you to the point where you're almost in tears one minute and laughing so hard the next and you've healed a bit at the same time, that's when I get to use the gift I was given.

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.

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 know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.

I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.