Best laughing & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution.”

People Knows Trying Firsts Two Enough Happens Guy Laughing Comedy Bars Rhythm Anticipation Execution Pauses Say Anything Signatures Coltrane

Author:Bill Cosby

“As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.”

“Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.”

Ifs Men Writing Firsts Book Lasts Heaven Animal Laughing Fire Stalking Prometheus

Book:Enjoyment of Literature

Source: Enjoyment of Literature

“Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.”

Men World Writing Firsts Pain Pleasure Known Opinion Laughing Sorrow Importance Every Man Vanity Related Injury Misfortunes Publish Supposing

Book:The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical

Source: The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical

“Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Littles Games Fun Memories Laughing First Time Balls Broke League Curves Thumbs Little League

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.”

Ifs Firsts Made Play Character Would Be Wanted Talking Laughing Written Phones Sydney Fiance

Author:Victor Garber

“I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.”

Years Firsts Bigs Remember Found Father Laughing Heard Stage Laughter Gold Down And Radio Ugly Checks Fantastic Pantomime

Author:Michael Caine

“I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”

Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono

“After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.”

Writing Firsts Reading Laughing Comedy Laughter Venues

Author:Aaron Belz

“Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Firsts Helping Might Laughing Serious Angry Funeral Make Me Laugh Pathos

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.”

Way Firsts Persons Joy Fun Laughing Tears Expression Idleness Old Ways

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.”

People Years Firsts Two Hard Laughing Worst Stage Fronts Broke Hard Times Two Years

Author:Bill Maher

“On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?”

“I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.”

Firsts Made I Can Two Hard Kids Age Found Common Acting Class Laughing One Day Admire Two Things Imaginary Fractions Carols Acting Classes Ucla Imaginary Friend Make Someone Laugh

Author:Christine Lakin

“I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.”

Firsts Remember Situation Laughing Tvs Amendments Remember When First Amendment Suspended Messed Up Miley

Author:Bobby Jindal

“Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.”

People Giving Years Firsts Stories Audience Laughing Minutes Fronts Give Me Down And Instinct Kicks Editing Say Anything

Author:Steve Martin

“The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.”

Years Firsts Turns Left Laughing Becoming Kissing Sight Property Series Etc Becoming More Nudity First Kiss Landmarks

Book:Us

Source: Us

“Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's savoury, white's the treat. Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast.”

Firsts Courses White Laughing Treats Brown Toasts Pudding

Author:Mark Corrigan

“It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.”

Firsts Humans Age Remember Lying Laughing Human Nature

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often I'm surprised at what an audience will or will not laugh at. I have to stay very, very open to an audiences first exposure to that material and how they react to it.”

Firsts Audience Laughing Comedy Materials Majors Exposure Criteria

Author:Larry Charles

“When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Faces Laughing Starting Dare Burden Jealous Dare To Try

Author:Maya Angelou

“And people are so het up about the fact I'm in the theatre - it's like, 'Ooh these telly names, can they be any good?' I came out of RADA and my first job was at the National Theatre, but everyone wonders if I can cope. It makes me laugh.”

People Ifs Firsts I Can Facts Jobs Names Wonder Laughing Theatre Make Me Laugh

Author:Joanna Page

“If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!”

Ifs Men World Want Should Firsts May Stills Fighting Speak Laughing Cry This World Angry Dare Atmosphere Boldness Speaks Out

Author:Lu Xun

“Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.”

Firsts Hard Turns Courses Laughing Comedy Calling Hooked

Author:Alan King

“You know, unfortunately divorce it happens in Kansas as much as it does in Hollywood. And, you know, women having to start over at 40, you know, for the first time in their life having to find a career and being a single parent and having to date. You know, all of those things happen everywhere in the world. It's not just Los Angeles. So I would defend the fact that there are, you know, there are other reasons to watch than just to get a laugh.”

Knows World Firsts Doe Reason Facts Happens Parent Careers Watches Laughing First Time Hollywood Divorce Things Happen Los Angeles Starting Over Kansas Single Parent Being A Single Parent

Author:Debra Messing

“As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.”

Source: The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network

“Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and wincing) from the first page? Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters, dried fish, and other surprising and original treasures. While Duncan sinks, the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment.”

“Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.”

Firsts Sometimes Laughing Comedy Directors

Author:Tina Fey

“I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me.”

People Firsts Real Moments Choices Acting Class Laughing Drug Laughter Hearing Silly Acting Classes Pleasers

Author:Ty Burrell

“A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.”

Firsts Children Hands Past Remember Father Laughing Generations Childhood Tears Gaps Ache Family Love Generation Gap

Book:Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional

Source: Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional

“I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.”

Firsts Can Do Lines Acting Laughing Cameras Innocent Makeup Virgins Costumes Juliet

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?”

Ifs Firsts Whole Turns Laughing Depends Sailor Crossings Helm

Author:Emile Chartier

“I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.”

Firsts Mother Laughing Baby Contests

Author:Phyllis Diller

“I don't write jokes first. I write down topics. I think of what I want to talk about, and then I write the jokes - they don't write me... And even if you don't think it's funny, you won't think it's boring. You might disagree, but you'll listen. And maybe even laugh as you disagree.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Firsts Might Laughing Jokes Boring Disagree Topics

Author:Chris Rock

“He who laughs last didn't get it in the first place.”

Firsts Lasts Laughing Making People Laugh Make You Laugh Short Laugh

Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought, 'I'll become a comedian, and then if everyone laughs at me, I'll be famous.' So I went on stage one night and, for the first time in my life, everyone stopped laughing at me.”

Ifs Firsts Used Night Laughing Growing Up Growing Stage First Time Comedian One Night

Author:Emo Philips

“From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.”

People Thinking Trying Firsts Age Laughing Months Needed Six Conscious Nine Shells Six Months Making People Laugh Nine Months

Author:Arj Barker

“It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did.”

People Firsts Together America Used Night Stuff Laughing Fire Fronts Comedian Guts Speakers Every Night Abraham Pubs Old Things

Author:Louis C. K.

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