Quotes About Laughter

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

My daddy. He's so funny! My whole family jokes around a lot.

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.