Quotes About Laughter

I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

I have always been more relaxed around comedy.

I laugh, cry, go for movies, eat popcorn. All these things are pretty relaxing for me.

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.

I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

It's a good time to be here in America. You feel that people just want to be together and release the pressure and laugh.

Good comedy can be liberating, and if I'm doing my job as a comedian, part of the joy for the audience is getting that release.

When I made 'Hera Pheri,' there was a huge poverty in Hindi cinema for comedies.

That is the thing that brought the Black community through so many of the hardships that we've faced historically. It's the ability to love and laugh and experience joy still in so many ways.

There have been quite a few films where we comediennes have come together, and all of them have been hits.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'

What holds you back in comedy is fear.

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

The holidays are a way to get away from the pain of the year, creating something people can laugh at. That's a gift.

The house I've bought in London, the holidays, everything has been bought from making people laugh, and if you'd said to me when I was 14 that's how I was going to make my living, I would have smiled from ear to ear.

Mary Holland is really funny.