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“The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.”

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Author:Bill Burr

“People are the same wherever you go. And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“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.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.”

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Author:Andrew Buchan

“I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.”

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Author:Michael Patrick King

“I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.”

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Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.”

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Author:Brett Ratner

“Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.”

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Author:Michael De Luca

“I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.”

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Author:Olivia Holt

“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.”

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Author:Nicklas Bendtner

“I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God... So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.”

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Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.”

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Author:Greg Behrendt

“I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

“I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“You've got to be pretty confident that you're good. If I do a show and for whatever reason no one laughs, I'll be like, 'Wow, those people are weird'.”

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Author:Aziz Ansari

“Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.”

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Author:Andrew Denton

“I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.”

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Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.”

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Author:Democritus

“If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.”

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Author:Barbara Feldon

“When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I trust my instincts. I just go out and talk. A lot of the time I let the material come from the top of my head.”

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Author:Eddie Murphy

“I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I think that doing comedy and playing Dwight is a service. Not to get grandiose about it, but I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh and that can help bring families together and people will really enjoy it and it puts a smile on their face and I think that is a really great thing.”

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Author:Rainn Wilson

“I make comedies and I always try... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or have some jokes that I know will be understood by only about 5% of the audience. It's that guy in the corner who gets it and laughs. But he has to have his jokes too. That's part of my audience. Part of my audience is the people who will only get certain things.”

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Author:Alexander Payne

“I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.”

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Author:Matthew Lillard

“The beauty of shooting on something that's not in front of an audience is that you can just cut out the times you're laughing. You can cut to the other person and try to use that moment, right before you break. There's an energy to those performances. There's a reason people were laughing. There was something very special. That little extra something was in that line delivery or in that improv, so you try to use that stuff.”

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Author:Ken Marino

“I love people who make me laugh!”

“Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do.”

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Author:Mike Birbiglia

“If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.”

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Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“If you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. You have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over.”

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Author:Jerry Lewis

“Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.”

“Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?”

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Book:Cancer Ward: A Novel

Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel

“Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.”

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Author:Martha Manning

“Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.”

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Book:Passionate Presence

Source: Passionate Presence

“If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!”

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Author:Rajneesh

“I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?”

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Author:Steve Goodier

“We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.”

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Book:Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography

Source: Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography

“There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.”

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Author:Barry Sonnenfeld

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