Quotes About Laughter

When you're 14 and you're with your friends, you laugh about really stupid stuff, but as you get older, the laughter inside you dies. When you're older, you need a bit of help.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, 'What the hell was that?'

There is this fallacy of the 'cool' comedian out there. You see the guys who take themselves very seriously and think they're being very suave and sardonic. But they're just jesters like the rest of us; they're just goons like we all are. The job is to make people laugh.

Comedy's really subjective, you know.

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

Comedy is subjective.

Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.

In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.

Everyone always wants women to fight and it's a real shame that it undoes all the good that 'Loose Women' does. While we laugh and talk about silly subjects, we also talk about really important subjects.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

I love comedies, both broad and subtle.

When I started doing arenas, because of the screens, I was back to getting the reaction of a very small room. If I say something and raise my eyebrow, everyone sees it. So people were laughing at the subtleties that they weren't getting in the theatres. It was really strange.

It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice.

I think if I'm with a friend group, I try to be as funny as possible, and I don't always succeed, obviously.

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.

This book is to help you understand that life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.