Quotes About Laughter

When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.

I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

When people take themselves really seriously, I find it silly and amusing.

I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

I was always silly in high school. I used to always get in trouble because I was laughing. I've always thought I was funny but never thought I could use it to make money. In 1996, I decided I was going to use my humor to get on TV to make money.

There's a difference between delivering real funny and just silly funny.

My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted.

My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.

David Wain's character on 'Bob's Burgers' is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

It's fun to be silly sometimes!

A lot of the stuff that I want to create personally is usually pretty absurd or silly comedy stuff.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

I'm not saying that comedy has to be a certain thing - I'm not trying to define comedy, where it's like, it can only be silly things. But I think part of what makes a comedy is that at least part of the mantra of the show is trying to make people laugh.

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection.

I asked what he was laughing at. "I was just wondering if it was possible to get any more miserable." He chuckled darkly. "I suppose if a river snake crawled up my ass and gave birth to quintuplets…

Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I'd ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.