Quotes About Laughter

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

Honestly, I am a very funny person, and I love making others laugh.

What all my favorite comedians have in common is extraordinary honesty.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me.

Obviously, I'm going to be embarrassing to the kid. There's just no way not. I just hope the kid has a really good sense of humor... My husband's very serious - he doesn't find me funny at all - so I'm hoping the kid is like, 'Mom is hilarious!' That'd be really great.

I love watching how people who are in love with each other deal with each other. Every time I've had a fight with an ex-girlfriend, at the time they're horrible, but when I look back they're often funny and weird, and that kind of stuff makes me laugh.

You can make me laugh at a thing that I think is horrific. You can make me laugh at a thing that affects me personally. But if you've done your homework and you've gone about it the right way, it will still be funny.

I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

It's a horror movie, but it's quite emotional too, and there's a lot of humor.

Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much.

I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.

I aspire to be a good dinner party host.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

I grew up in a funny household, and I love making people laugh. It brings me so much joy.

It doesn't matter how many times the audience has heard it before. If it's funny, it's funny.

I think Chicago's kind of a comedy hub, and I think it always has been.

I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.

I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.