Quotes About Laughter

I love Sam Mendes, but I went to see 'Spectre' with my kid, and the opening scene of the Dia de Muertos party, with this kind of tropical music, in downtown Mexico City, with all these people dancing like it's the Rio de Janeiro carnival... I had to laugh.

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.

Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.

I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

I'm just trying desperately to hang on to my true friends. Like Jon Voight. We laugh all the time at how stupid we are.

Honestly, just live your life to the fullest. Laugh a lot, love and find your true happiness.

Nothing is funnier than a true story told by a bitter old black man.

I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

I am more comfortable doing comedy, and I want to perform comedy. When you can really make someone laugh, that's a healing experience. It's like music. A lot of music is really healing.