“In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.” GivingLongHomePastFallThreeWaterDarkLaughingEmotionalSceneSwimmingThree TimesDeep Emotional Author:Brie Larson
“I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.” KnowsKindKidsSchoolUsedFallGirlStuffHurtLaughingComedianHurting Yourself Author:Matthew Perry
“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!” YearsChildrenReasonLightAgePainPastFallDarkPayLaughingHonorProfoundCastsOld AgeFiftyRaysBlindnessAlasTremblingFlickerDeafnessGout Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger
“Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.” YearsSongFallLaughingGoldStoresTriumphAutumnHarvestGemsNovember PoemsSummer To FallFall And Winter Author:John Greenleaf Whittier
“People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTryingDoneOrderFallStuffLaughingSubjectsWillingBeing The BestNew Things Author:Laird Hamilton
“Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep going—talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimes—except no announcer interrupts to say ‘Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyote’ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.” KnowsYearsWarSometimesRunningFallTalkingLaughingPlansListeningWake UpLuckExcuseKeep GoingCartoonListening To MusicCliffsGood LuckExcuse MeCoyotesAnnouncersMusic Making Author:Mark Slouka
“It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion.” IfsMenMayPersonsSelfCharacterFallPassionLaughingWiser Book:Works Source: Works
“I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.” PeopleIfsThinkingMatterFallExistenceLaughingTerribleLaughterUnhappyTendenciesComicTragicInterpretationBrutalFall BackVery SadSo SadKilling Yourself Author:Woody Allen
“When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.” IfsFallEffortLaughingBuddhismPicksAgain And AgainFalling DownSloppyPick Yourself Up Author:Frederick Lenz
“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.” KnowsWayMatterMightEyeRunningLastsSufferingFallWaitingSidesHurtSleepLaughingSeaCryTearsStrangeWindFineSorrowPromiseBedSkillsOceanRainLet MeDown AndDryTidesPaleNailsRise AboveWeepingFalling DownMenaceRoaringMatter Of TimeRise Above ItOverkillHowling Wind Author:Tim Finn
“Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.” MenFallLaughingClothesChic Book:When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me Source: When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me
“Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.” PeopleWorldFallLaughingCryIllusionRivers Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsYearsBelieveChildrenPlayRunningFallFearLosesEnemyCreativityMillionsLaughingRiskLetting GoCapableDrawsGainsNineGet UpBehaveWillingnessFearfulFreezePlaygroundsNine YearsGood BusinessChildren Playing Author:Faith Ringgold
“A guy walks into a bar, orders a drink, sees a girl that catches his eye. Asks her if she wants another, they fall for each other and end up lovers. They laugh, cry, hold on tight and make it work for a little while, then one night her taillights fade out into the dark. And a guy walks into a bar” IfsWantLittlesEndsEyeNightGuyOrderFallGirlAsksDarkWalksLaughingCryLoversDrinkBarsHis EyesFadesOne Night Author:Tyler Farr
“Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.” EnoughFallBrainLaughingTasteIslandsRetreatGood Taste Author:Ray Bradbury
“I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.” LooksPersonsBigsFallLaughingFailingStupidCommitSwingsFalling Down Author:Amy Poehler
“A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.” ThinkingWayShouldMadeDifferentFallImaginationNovelLaughingTreeRocksHorrorNostalgiaStableAbsurdityFalling ApartHolding OnBourgeoisReactionaries Author:Tony Burgess