“Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.” LaughingKnowingLaughterCrowdsMeaningfulI've Learned Author:Patrice O'Neal
“It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.” IfsThinkingSoulAudienceLaughingKnowingDestroying Author:Vince Vaughn
“Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.” MenHappensLastsDiesNamesLaughingHellKnowingHe ManFoolSpeechSickIllGravesHealCrueltyAwakeParadisePoisonDelicateSmoothFlatteryMurdererSurgeonsDamnationDelicacySlumberHelpersLulls Author:Charles Spurgeon
“I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace.” IfsWorldHumansHuman BeingsLaughingKnowingBrotherFlowerGardenSavedBreathingMy BrotherLoved OnesPrincessFloatingBrothers And SistersEdenGarden Of Eden Author:Pamela Des Barres
“I remember asking one of the [cyber experts], I said, "Knowing what you know, and you exist behind the curtains so to speak, and you see behind the curtain, do you look at the world differently? Do you feel you have an upper hand?" He just started laughing and said, "Man, people have no idea how exposed they are, how vulnerable, and what's possible."” PeopleKnowsMenWorldFeelsLooksSaidIdeasHandsRememberSpeakBehindsLaughingKnowingAskingVulnerableNo IdeaExpertsExposedCurtainsCyberUpper Hand Author:Chris Hemsworth
“With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.” PeopleIfsMadeStuffResultsSilenceLaughingKnowingComedyDramaBeatsUltimateCombinationCrewSilence IsComedic Author:Chris Pratt
“What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.” PeopleIdeasAbleLaughingKnowingBalanceJokesAdultsTricksAppealsFunny ThingsAnimatedAnimated Movies Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“When you're onstage, it's a communication technique when you make people laugh. You're communicating. You're communicating with other human beings and when they laugh you know that you're connecting. Laughing is an honest reaction and it's something that I can trust, and I love that feeling of knowing that I connected.” PeopleKnowsHumansI CanFeelingsHuman BeingsLaughingKnowingHonestCommunicationCommunicateConnectedTechniqueReactionsConnectingMaking People LaughCommunicating With Others Author:Brian Regan
“Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.” PeopleMomentsLaughingKnowingComedySadnessMiddleDramaCatharsis Author:Steve Coogan
“TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things.” LongMomentsTermLaughingKnowingEmotionalTvsLong Term Author:Michael Brandt
“Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.” TryingBelieveLaughingKnowingJokesPhotographKeep TryingSeducingDummyKnowing Better Author:Larry Sultan
“We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and myself are quiet; I need to be begged to do these interviews. But it comes down to being a team, that is the main thing. Knowing, understanding and accepting our roles.” MenNeedsBigsUnderstandingAcceptingRolesLaughingKnowingTeamQuietBandMake SenseInterviewsDiverse Author:Robbie Merrill
“Alan Rickman was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh together because we ran out of reaction shots. They were always - when everything had been done and the children were finished, they would turn the camera around and we'd have to do various reaction shots of amazement or sadness and things. We used to say we'd got to about number 200-and-something and we'd run out of knowing what to do when the camera came around on us. But he was a joy.” ChildrenDoneCharacterRunningTogetherUsedJoyTurnsActorsNumbersLaughingKnowingSadnessShotsCamerasVariousFinishedReactionsRanTerrificAmazementKnowing What To Do Author:Maggie Smith
“I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.” ThinkingKindSaidDoneShowsRememberAudienceLaughingKnowingPiecesAirConflictJokesMy FavoriteIsraelTensionSatireWowNot KnowingWeird ThingsZeitgeistHezbollah Author:Aasif Mandvi
“Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!” I CanFeelingsHappensSexUnderstandingLaughingKnowingFoundationInspiredConnectedMeaningfulSomething NewBellyGood FoodLoving OthersGreat SexLearning Something NewBelly Laughs Author:Jaime Murray
“I don't think I could ever stop doing serious movies and just do comedies, or vice versa, but there is something cool about going to work everyday and you're just trying to make your friends laugh. That's nice work if you can get it, you know what I mean? It's different than going to work and knowing that I've gotta slap someone in the face today, and then I've gotta cry, and someone's gonna die, I've gotta get myself to that place.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingMeanDifferentTodayFacesDiesLaughingKnowingComedyNiceCrySeriousEverydayVicesGoing To WorkVice VersaSlapNice Work Author:John C. Reilly