Quotes About Laughter

And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued…

So much good my persecutors have done me by recklessly pouring out all the shafts of their hatred. They have deprived themselves of any power over me and henceforward I can laugh at them. It

Lina laughed. So did Doon. A look went between them, like a quick current of electricity

We raised our glasses. I could almost hear Dad chuckling at Mom's comment in the way he always did when he was truly enjoying something. It had grown dark outside. A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.

Mom waved at the crowd. "You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you," she said. With our garbage-bag-taped window, our roped-down hood, and the art supplies tied to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies. The thought gave her a fit of the giggles.

You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

A man rarely feels like laughing alone.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

I definitely work pretty hard to stay present and focused. I've also tried to create a life for myself where I'm surrounded by honest, loyal, and funny people, because I like to laugh.

Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.

Well, I like to have fun at work.

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.