Quotes About Laughter

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

Because of where we've been, we might not ever totally grow up. Is that so bad? Other adults spend fortunes trying to revive their inner children, trying to be wide-eyed, curious, creative, playful, even vulnerable again. We are already that way. We have always been that way, and we can stay that way. Bring hard-won wisdom, courage, and awareness into it, but candor, laughter, tender sympathy for crying kings and birds with broken wings: these we can keep.

My mother felt that what she did was nothing special. If you find yourself in such a situation that's what you do. She never wanted attention; also not at family celebrations. But within the family, she was certainly not silent. She was calm and thoughtful. But she also had the most wonderful laugh.

Amazing how shared laughter could sweeten life, make it seem worth living.

She laughed—and then stopped.

Yeah!" Iggy said, laughing. "We can all charge her at once! Like she turns to do something on the board, and we all go right then. Bbrrrrrrmmmm!" "She'd freak!" said Owen enthusiastically.

En mi diario aparece escrito el 19 de enero: «Pequeños dolores. No sé cuánto tiempo va a necesitar el embrión para morir y ser expulsado. Un clarín toca La Marsellesa, se oyen risas en la planta de arriba. Así es la vida».

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "boy was that fun."

Eat, drink, and be scary.

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

I don't usually eulogise about people, but I saw Russell Brand doing stand-up before he was really high profile. I didn't really know what to expect but I laughed until my belly ached.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

I never really had the time for a proper bachelorette party.

I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn't seem like a proper job.

It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

Back in school, there was this guy who had a huge crush on me. One day, when he mustered the courage to propose to me on a Rose Day, my friends burst out laughing right in front of him. I'm sure we all have had such experiences, and I've had crushes in the past. Right now, all I can think about is my films and deliver my best.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

That's not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I'm an actor. The fuel for me is the laugh. Maybe later I'll want to show people the darker side... But right now, I'm having too much fan making people laugh. And it really makes me feel good.

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.