Quotes About Laughter

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

A barrel of laughs should be enough, but it's not. A good review is official and endures. A bad one is like a tub of Flora. It spreads easily and lasts for the whole festival.

I'm usually the person laughing to myself on the tube.

I love pulling faces at little kids on the London tube to see if I can make them laugh, and I usually do.

When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my day. I was thinking: fat suit. I was thinking: shaving my head. It was so outlandish, such a crazy idea.

If you mess around with your mates, you get into rough and tumble then you remember you're in your mid-40s and you can't land the way you used to, so it's great fun.

Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune.

You need to tune into a different way of being funny for kids. They're learning the rhythm of a joke.

I still maintain that Looney Tunes is the funniest program ever made.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'