Laughing Quotes - Page 114

I love making people laugh.

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go back to an audience every now and again to see if you're still getting your craft right, making people laugh at the moments you think they should and that sort of thing.

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

Larry David makes me laugh.

We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.

The talented actor needs craft. When you do a stage play, you do it once each night in chronological order. In a film you're going to wind up doing a scene 15-20 times, just by the nature of the process. If I tell you a joke once, it's funny. The more times I tell, the less funny it is. How do you get to the point where you can laugh again? You also may have to cry again and again.

Laugh, if thou art wise.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.

We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.

We turned the lights off to save money, so you can't really see it. It's the same show. Hopefully, there are lots of laughs and lots of great personal stuff, but it is explicitly a darker season [4 of Sherlock Holmes].

Comedy is best when it's a reaction to something. When you're talking about a topic, and when your friend says something funny naturally, that kind of points something out and puts it on its side, or whatever, then everybody laughs. Because it's unsuspected.

I try to be fair, and I try not to be cruel or mean when I'm interviewing someone. But you have to push a few buttons. When you're on a roll and you're making a person laugh, you can say things that are truthful about them, and then they'll laugh at them as well. Otherwise, it might just sound like you're attacking them.

I'm becoming the Fuhrer - the Fuhrer of Laughs!