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“People are too worried a lot of times what other people in the audience are going to think about them, so they like to feign offense so other people don't think that they're inappropriate for laughing at something.”

People Thinking Audience Laughing Worried Offense Inappropriate

Author:Jim Norton

“People are dumb and they think that laughing equals cosigning a belief in the ideology, which it doesn't.”

People Thinking Belief Laughing Ideology Dumb

Author:Jim Norton

“There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.”

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Author:Steve Wozniak

“Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.”

Thinking Writing Laughing Make You Laugh

Author:Armando Iannucci

“Think about laughing and laugh about thinking.”

Thinking Laughing

Author:Steve Higgins

“I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.”

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Author:Uzo Aduba

“An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.”

Thinking Stills United States Laughing Risk Fool Laughter England Fellows Laughed Englishmen

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.”

Thinking Feels Made Audience Laughing Cry Theater Theatre

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and laugh, there is a possibility of improvement, and a possibility of change. I think humor sneaks up on people, and before you know it, you're laughing at something you might not agree with.”

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Author:Kate Clinton

“I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.”

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Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.”

Thinking Trying Stuff Walks Laughing Wonderful Fans Arms Negative Complicated Access Length Wonderful Things

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I don't aim it at anybody specific, I don't aim my characters to make old people laugh or young people or professionals or blue collar, just whatever I think is going to be funny and it just so happens that.”

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Author:Jeff Dunham

“Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.”

Thinking Way Character Laughing Picks Folks Come Up Favorite Characters

Author:Jeff Dunham

“Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.”

People Thinking Careers Laughing Comedy Making People Laugh

Author:Reggie Watts

“American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.”

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Book:The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection

Source: The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection

“[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.”

Thinking Needs Able Sex Laughing Cry Actresses Think Of You

Author:Glenda Jackson

“writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?”

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Author:Kate Braverman

“What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks, And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks, As if his head were as full of kinks And curious riddles as any sphinx!”

Ifs Thinking Littles Laughing Doubt Wonderful Mystery Cry Drink Curious No Doubt Wonderful Things Crow Riddle Unwritten Chuckles Kink Sphinx Babyhood

Book:BITTER-SWEET A POEM

Source: BITTER-SWEET A POEM

“You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Littles Kids Laughing Months Six Six Months Little Kid Your Best Friend

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little.”

People Thinking Mind Littles Walks Laughing Comedy Tools Props Make You Laugh Stand Up Comedy Respect People

Author:David Letterman

“I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.”

People Thinking Knows Jobs Challenges Laughing Comedian Making People Laugh

Author:Ricky Gervais

“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!”

“When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.”

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Author:Courteney Cox

“I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.”

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Author:Mike Birbiglia

“A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.”

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Author:Ben Schwartz

“I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.”

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Author:Eric Idle

“Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.”

Thinking World Should Matter Problem Forget Laughing One Thing Share Laughter No Matter What Wounds Heal

Author:Kevin Hart

“I don't want to get too much into my personal relationships but I will say I am actually doing the single thing right now. I want someone that I can have fun with and laugh with. I love to laugh and I'm really sarcastic, so it's important that she can take a joke. I think if you are going to be with someone for a while you really need someone you can let loose with and let go of all the stress of the day.”

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Author:Matt Lanter

“Naked Gun 33 1/3 I think made me laugh more than anything ever made.”

Thinking Made Laughing Gun Naked

Author:Horatio Sanz

“I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'”

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Author:Maeve Binchy

“Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and I hope horrible things dont happen to my family, but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.”

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Author:Amy Schumer

“When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“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 think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.”

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Author:David Nicholls

“I think that when you’re doing a comedy and it makes you laugh, there’s a certain… like you can reject it, and it’s okay. It’s not promoting it or making it seem cool. I think that’s when you get into hot water.”

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Author:Michael Pena

“I make myself laugh all the time. I think I'm really funny. I do.”

Thinking Laughing

Author:Mila Kunis

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

People Thinking Laughing Comedy Making People Laugh

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don't have the most money, but it's a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it's good.”

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Author:Queen Latifah

“What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.”

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Author:Stephen Fry

“We ultimately have to find truth in the material, and I think that transfers onto the screen. Obviously there's varying degrees of it, and we don't get it right all the time [laughs], but I think when it feels grounded, it's because we recognize the truth in the material.”

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Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Anything is depressing if you dwell on it. The fact that religion could end the world? Yeah, I guess that could be considered depressing. But considering that there's also a lot to laugh at, I think it's a good balance.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . They're becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.”

“I think my most beautiful smile or laugh emerges when I'm happy.”

Thinking Beautiful Laughing Beautiful Smile

Author:Jessica Jung

“The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.”

“Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You're Barbara Hershey, we are beaches.”

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Author:Taylor Negron

“I think we all get our own bag of hammers. We all get our own Parkinson's. We all have our own thing. I think that we'll look at it through the filter of that experience, and we'll say, "Yeah, I need to laugh at my stuff, too."”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“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

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