Quotes About Laughter

I was always pretty funny with my friends.

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

I have little sister Lola, she is small and very funny.

When we were younger, my cousins used to jump in front of cars with masks on and start dancing really funny or making funny moves and the people in the cars would start laughing.

To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw.

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.

They really cut to the chase in the urologist's examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R.

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.

I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should be laughing.

Sometimes I was so funny I couldn't stand myself.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.