Quotes About Laughter

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

I enjoy making people laugh. If I can put a smile on someone's face if I do a dance in the end zone, why not?

Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.

I like to laugh, but on the court, it is my work. I try to smile, but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball, not on my face.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.