Quotes About Laughter

We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Frank Skinner was a terrible flatmate in some respects. He never cooked and the cleaning lady refused to go into his room. But he was brilliant because he was very, very funny. You could just sit around at home and have a laugh without having to rely on any social arrangements.

The other stuff of marriage can fade a little bit, but as long as you can laugh with your partner, that's everything because that's what remains at the end of the day. I think that's how we pick our friends and that's how we ultimately pick who we marry.

How about a good comedy? 'Raising Arizona.' Remains the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life.

I am a comedian. You may or may not find me funny, but the fact remains, that I am a comedian.

I always knew I was quite good at getting laughs. At school, I loved having a ready audience if I made a cheeky remark.

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

Does anyone remember laughter?

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

At the end of the day, when Charlie Murphy ain't here no more, I'll have a body of work that people can laugh and remember me by.

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

In fact, I get angry when people laugh at me. I go to the airport and the ground hostess starts laughing at me when she sees me. I get irritated and ask them if I just did some comedy for them to laugh like that. But then I apologise because I know they must have remembered some movie scene that I did.

Everybody remembers 'Just Shoot Me,' and I'm very proud of that. It's still on TV, and people still catch it and laugh about it, and I personally have wonderful, wonderful memories working with those people.

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

I like the clowns from the circus that have more paint on their face. They were all funny and made me laugh. As a kid, I remember the clowns that were all in white reminded me more of death than circus clowns. It can be a scary thing.

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

My mother, Yolanda, was a little girl who never grew up, and sometimes we would laugh, and I would say things like, 'Okay, so now it looks like I am your mother and you are my daughter,' to which she would reply, 'Well, yes. Handle it and pamper me.'

It doesn't get better than making people laugh and also making sure people don't go hungry.

To do comedy, there are so many hurdles one has to cross.

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.