Quotes About Laughter

I defuse everything I can with it. Humor is such a great shield.

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' from an early age, 'Laverne & Shirley.'

It's easy to scare people. It's easy to shock them. But making people laugh and making them feel is a big challenge.

I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first; otherwise, they will shoot you.

I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.

I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.

Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.

If something's awful, I find it funny. If something's funny, I find it funny. It's my natural, go-to place.

If you ain't laughing, you ain't living, baby.

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.

Eddie Sadowski of Baltimore is always good for a couple of laughs a game.

The first time I read 'Barbecue,' I fell in love with it. I never laughed so hard in my life.

The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

I would like a comedy. A comedy would be nice.

When you're small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.

Comedy and horror are both escapes, and entertainment is a beautiful thing.

I learned to laugh at myself a little more, and I realized that beautiful things can be made out of mistakes.

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.