Quotes About Laughter

I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

I'm good at being funny.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.

Being funny is everything to me.

I like being funny; I like laughing with people.

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I'm making a career out of it.

There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly guy being funny and stupid.

Being funny is very complex.

I was always rewarded for being funny. I liked being funny.

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.

I think part of being human is jokes.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

Comedy makes things believable. Because if there's anything we all know, it's how to make fun of ourselves, and to make fun of situations to make them a bit easier.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.

Launching into a long story involving a French tourist, a Buddhist monk, and a particularly shaggy yak, Hall delivered the punch line with an impish squint, paused a beat for effect, then threw his head back in a booming, contagious laugh, unable to contain his delight in his own yarn. I liked him immediately.

There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

One man was saying, 'It cost me a new SUV for my wife,'" Andrew said. "Another said, 'It cost me a cruise to the Bahamas and a new kitchen.' Everyone was laughing.

I happily played the clown, Because I am a clown.

These days, every politician is a laughing-stock, and the laughter which occasionally used to illuminate the dark corners of the political world with dazzling, unexpected shafts of hilarity has become an unthinking reflex on our part, a tired Pavlovian reaction to situations that are too difficult or too depressing to think about clearly.