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Quotes About Laughter

I chuckled like Aldo Ray. If I had to endure his l'homme du monde act, he had to suffer my jaded alcoholic private eye.
~ James Crumley
Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
~ James Frey
Love and laughter and fucking make one's life better. Worship is just the passing of time.
~ James Frey
If you're gonna cry, cry because of all the good times we had, and all the laughs, and all the fun shit we did, and cry because those memories make you happy.
~ James Frey
In here laughing is the only drug. Laughing or love. They are both drugs.
~ James Frey
It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I am as awful as people say and worse. She laughed and I had a friend. She didn't become my Ally and I didn't ask her to or want her to but she became my friend and that was more than anyone else was willing to do.
~ James Frey (Author)
My uncle is a hemophiliac, and my brother is one as well. I am a carrier, and it's a disease that my kids also deal with. It's something that has affected my family and I for so long, and I think it's actually what drove me to comedy as a means to cope during tough times.
~ Alex Borstein
I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!
~ Chris O'Dowd
They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
~ Sarah Silverman
My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry.
~ Honeysuckle Weeks
My mum and dad are both really funny. My granddad's really funny. My uncle's really funny. Everyone's really funny. You have to be quick; otherwise, you get roasted. Everyone takes the piss quite a lot. You have to be really sharp.
~ Noel Fielding
I want to be the cool uncle, the fun uncle.
~ James William Middleton
My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.
~ Charlyne Yi
The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.
~ Chris Messina
As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.
~ Adam Conover
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
~ John Ratzenberger
I was born with a mother who loved me unconditionally and with a sense of humor.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
~ Bernie Siegel
Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
~ Randy Pausch
I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.
~ Beeban Kidron
I love comedy. It's something that I think Marvel does so well, and it's one of the reasons I love Marvel so much is the quips that you get: that kind of underlying everything and cutting through the very heavy emotional stuff.
~ Elizabeth Henstridge
People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.
~ Nick Cave
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
~ Jay Roach
I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.
~ Peter Hedges