Laughing Quotations | Page 6

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You're constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.

With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.

In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.

When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chance to write for a character.

When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. Music and movies. That's what's exciting about what we do, the fact that it's so global. It brings people together. People don't have to understand the language to laugh at actors. They're going to laugh even though they don't understand what they're saying. Cause they're seeing it.

In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I'm pretty much sold.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

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?

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.

I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.