Quotes About Laughter

Bill Macy is the most incredible, humble, and hungry human being, and that is the captain of our ship. He is phenomenal. We still laugh together, and we still talk and text and check on each other.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Thank God for Stifler's mom. I don't know if life would be this fun if I didn't have that.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

The first thing you start with when you're trying to write something funny is it has to - it really has to come to you first. I has to be an idea that you have that first makes you laugh, that strikes you as funny.

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.

The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

The secret of comedy is enjoying it. If you're not laughing, it's not going to be funny.

The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.