“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.” WantFirstsLittlesTwoCharacterNightActorsPrayerLaughingFiveMinutesStageDemandStartingStakesBroadwayFive MinutesExitStarting Out Author:Charles Kimbrough
“But instead they tell you they'll come to fix your cable between noon and five, and I say, okay, I'll pay my next bill between July and November, but they don't laugh.” NextPayLaughingFiveOkayBillsCablesJulyNovemberNoon Author:Tim Dorsey
“Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.” PeopleYearsLooksStillsCarePassionLaughingFiveFourDon't CareLustI Don't CareFive YearsDedicatedMaking People LaughFive Year Olds Author:Bernie Mac
“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.” IfsMatterJobsAudienceLaughingFiveLove YouWho You AreSecondsClapping Author:Aubrey Plaza
“Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.” YearsBelieveHardReasonHappensTurnsI BelieveLaughingFiveOur LivesAliveCryPleaseExtremesReason Why Book:Yes Please Source: Yes Please
“I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantYearsLooksI CanEndsDoneHappensMy OwnAbilityTalkingLaughingFivePlayerCupsLeagueFive YearsTrust MeWorld CupPremier LeagueStrikers Author:Nicklas Bendtner
“I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?” YearsWarLaughingFiveChildhoodFive YearsBombs Author:Marjane Satrapi
“That being said, in my top five favorite movies, two of them are Alien and Aliens. I love to laugh, and I love to make people laugh. I love comedy, but I also love the darker things in life. I guess I'm an extremist. I'm an adrenaline junkie. Just cruising along at a normal capacity really doesn't do anything for me.” PeopleSaidTwoLaughingFiveComedyNormalCapacityAliensThings In LifeExtremistMaking People LaughAdrenalineJunkie Author:Angie Harmon
“Most of the time, it just sat there in my body, until the weekend. After five or six takes of crying, your body does not want to cry anybody. Your body is like, "I'm over this, can we start laughing, or something?," but you have to keep the emotion. It's a really weird process and it definitely just stays with you.” WantDoeBodyProcessEmotionLaughingFiveCrySixYour BodySatWeekendReally Weird Author:Tinsel Korey
“I started drinking when I was like 15, and by the time I was 19 everybody knew I was an alcoholic. So I would start five fights every weekend and lose terribly. First you start off fighting with one person and then he beats you up; and then one guy would be laughing, so you would hit him, too.” FirstsPersonsWould BeGuyFightingLosesLaughingFiveBeatsDrinkingWeekendAlcoholics Author:Felipe Esparza