Quotes About Laughter

One thing that I struggled with was not corpsing when you're being thrown stuff that's absolutely hilarious by the other actors.

When life throws not-so-serious curveballs, sometimes you need to embrace it, and laugh it off with the support of your friends, and let's be honest, pancakes always make everything better.

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it's great fun.

'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.

The 'Tickle Monster' story literally flew out of my mouth.

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

I denied my comic thing there for awhile. I always made people laugh, but my family said that's not the real world, I had to put on a suit and tie and be serious.

He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

Sometimes celebrating, enjoying, and laughing seem almost inappropriate in a world as broken as ours. We look around and see panic on the faces of everyone we see. Tragedies become ordinary. How, in good conscience, can we laugh and celebrate and eat pizza? I believe we must celebrate - because celebration is one of the most effective weapons we have against the darkness of our day. The real grief of the state of our world is the pervasive fear that settles in our hearts.

he laughed loudly, tossed his beer can and cigarette into the compost bin,

People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

step out of the forest and onto a road, stepping into Technicolor. Even Ruth laughs. What's a road doing in a place so lost? We kick the dirt of it for a moment, testing its material. "You know where this leads eventually?" I ask her. She raises her brow, and I'm about to say a McDonald's equipped with free Wi-Fi, but that seems mean. I look back into the forest. We both do, but the path we walked is already gone forever.

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (He laughs.) Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. Oh? Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

A jest breaks no bones.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

He laughed. "So you see, I'm not a nut. Not a real one, anyway. I haven't been a real nut in a long time.