Quotes About Laughter

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.

To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

I'm most at peace in my home when there's chaos, and that means that my kids had their friends over a lot growing up.

I like grown up comedy.

There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.

My comedy grows as I grow as a person.

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

Chris Guest movies are funny.

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

I was shot from the funny gun.

What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.

My most annoying habit is laughing all the time. I can't stop giggling. I do it because I'm nervous.

The hallmark of a good comedy is that it can make you laugh, but it can also take you to the point where you're in love with these characters, and you want to see them be happy, and you want to feel that emotion for them.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.

Women do not adore men; women are amused by men, we are a source of chuckles. That's because women are the makers of life, and we aren't. We will never be able to carry life within our bodies, never breast-feed. We get more than our share of loot and we are, for some reason, incredibly brave and funny and inventive, and yet our role in procreation basically is to get crazy and howl and spray our seed in all directions. •

Things aren't so bad if you can laugh at the Devil

I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh...

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.