Laughing Quotations | Page 8

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.