“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.” PeopleThinkingFactsGivenLaughingVirtueOur LivesDramaMaking People Laugh Author:Matthew Lillard
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingLaughingNakedLocks 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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldMindWellsLittlesFeelingsBodyYoungEnergyLaughingLike YouPoisonChildlikeGood FeelingFlairAtrophy Author:Jerry Lewis
“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?” PeopleIfsThinkingMenLoveHumansAnimalLaughingCatBounds Book:Cancer Ward: A Novel Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel
“I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.” ThinkingWayMomentsHomeMemoriesDealsLaughingOur LivesSadnessHealthyJokesMy FamilyTragedyComing HomeFuneralBellySaddestLimousines Author:Zach Braff
“I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!” IfsThinkingShouldGodTruthLyingKnownLaughingSunThousandOceanMouthsBrilliantTinyOpening Author:Hafez
“How did you feel feeding doughnuts to a horse? Had a kick out of it, huh? Got a big laugh. Did you ever think of feeding doughnuts to a human being? No!” ThinkingFeelsHumansBigsHuman BeingsLaughingHorseKicksFeedingDoughnut Author:Robert Riskin
“If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.” IfsThinkingTermLaughingMediaCreationConversationHarderRelateVersusDehumanizationBombardedBombarded By Author:Jehane Noujaim
“I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of mind control. Rather than war, I'd force people to get on with each other and I'd force people to argue reasonably about things rather than be polemical. So I'd be a supervillain that makes everyone get on, but forcefully. There would be no choice about it. No free will.” PeopleThinkingMindWarWould BeFormChoicesForceLaughingCuttingExerciseArguingFree WillMind ControlSupervillains Author:Jemaine Clement
“Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human. Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least.” ThinkingTryingHumansSituationLaughingDramaDepthComic Author:Colm Meaney
“We have reached a very cynical era of comedy. The Muppets have proven, for 40 years, that you can get laughs without ever doing it at someone else's expense, and I think that that's a really important thing for kids to realize.” ThinkingYearsImportantKidsRealizingLaughingComedyImportant ThingsErasExpensesCynicalProvenMuppet Author:Jason Segel
“In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.” ThinkingWorldGivingLittlesHas BeensWholeAbleBitsWaterAbilityCareersLaughingComedyNiceLittle BitGive MeWhole WorldHopefullyTrickyNegotiatingHopefully Not Author:Anna Faris
“When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingHardNextInterestLaughingMinutesSubjectsTenJokesTwentiesCatholicism Author:George Meyer
“I think people need to laugh everyday. Whether the economy is good or bad, I think the most important thing is to laugh and to feel positive, if you are laughing at something positive. But if you are laughing at mean jokes then it's a wash.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsFeelsMeanImportantLaughingEconomyJokesImportant ThingsEveryday Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.” ThinkingMadeUsedLaughingDrawsUsed To Love Author:Roz Chast
“I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything” PeopleThinkingKindLaughingMaking People LaughEscapism Author:Chelsea Handler
“I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayShowsWantedLaughingTakenBest WayComedianStaringSkirtsShowing Off Author:Chelsea Handler
“I think that even in a drama, we all want to smile, and laugh because what a horrible life if we're just like "I'm in a drama." And so I think in everything you're trying to look for the humor, even if it's a dark scene, because most people want to have fun in life, as opposed to have a boring time, a terrible time.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTryingLooksFunDarkLaughingTerribleDramaSceneBoringHorribleHaving FunSmile And LaughTerrible TimesHorrible Life Author:David Koechner
“I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons.” PeopleThinkingReasonHealingLaughingLaughterMy FavoriteThings To DoMaking People LaughFavorites Things Author:Kelly Stables
“When you're younger you have a lot of ideas and you're probably more insecure, all those things. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities and I make fun of them. I don't make fun of them but I make them laugh, because I know what they're going through. When you get older you think 'It's only a movie after all, it's not brain surgery.'” ThinkingKnowsIdeasYoungActorsBrainLaughingInsecuritySurgeryInsecureYoung ActorsBrain Surgery Author:Anthony Hopkins
“You can think whatever you want to and laugh, but I believe if I would have never learned to put my stuff back on the right grocery store shelves, and I would have never learned to put my cart back where God told me to, I don't believe I would be standing here today preaching this message to you. And I think there are literally millions of people who miss the will of God for their life because they think little things don't make any difference.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantBelieveLittlesWould BeI BelieveStuffDifferencesMillionsLaughingMissingMessagesDon't BelieveStoresGods WillLittle ThingsPreachingShelvesGroceriesCartsGrocery Stores Author:Joyce Meyer
“There is a relationship between humor and fear. Think of all the gags you ever heard that have to do with dismemberment, or something that's horrible in one way or another, even if it's just horrible in the sense that somebody's being embarrassed. What do kids laugh at? Kids laugh if your fly's down. That's hilarious. But for the kid whose fly is down, it's a horrible situation.” IfsThinkingWayKidsSituationLaughingHeardHorribleOne WayEmbarrassedGags Author:Stephen King
“I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are. I laugh after every take just out of the discomfort I feel that I'm even on film. It's an awkward thing for me to be doing. Once we get going, it's always fine, and as we're shooting, I'm never thinking about it. I'd say that all my time in front of the camera is equally uncomfortable for me.” ThinkingFeelsSeemsFilmActorsLaughingFrontsFineComfortableCamerasShootingUncomfortableMy TimeAwkwardDiscomfortDorky Author:Seth Rogen
“When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.” ThinkingShouldChildrenMotherNightLaughingDoorsMiddleBedSickWake UpMiddle Of The NightImpeccable Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.” PeopleThinkingLooksDifferencesLaughingRichPoliticianPromiseAreasComedian Author:Bill Maher
“Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsTryingFilmLaughingComedyMinutesTheaterThings ChangeAway From YouSlippingSlipping Away Author:Taika Waititi
“I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.” PeopleThinkingFeelsImportantMomentsStoriesLaughingTakenSeriousStory People Author:RZA
“If I think of a joke that's really dirty and I think it's funny I'll try it but what I've found over the years is they just don't laugh. It doesn't work coming out of my mouth so it's like they taught me 'don't do that. Don't go that way or you'll lose me.'” IfsThinkingWayTryingYearsFoundLosesLaughingTaughtJokesMouthsDirtyComing Out Author:Demetri Martin
“A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.” ThinkingWayShouldMadeDifferentFallImaginationNovelLaughingTreeRocksHorrorNostalgiaStableAbsurdityFalling ApartHolding OnBourgeoisReactionaries Author:Tony Burgess
“If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.” IfsThinkingLaughingWorstLaughedWorst Times Author:Bo Burnham
“So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWholeBigsAbleTogetherYoungSexCasesLaughingCry Author:Don Rickles
“There's a guy in the audience with a distinctive laugh. I hope that guy is miked. The only problem with having a distinctive laugh is I know exactly when that guy isn't laughing. "Oh, distinctive laugh doesn't think that joke was funny!"” ThinkingKnowsProblemHumorFunnyGuyAudienceLaughingJokesThat GuyDistinctive Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I don't ever see movies by myself. I always see them with other people because I want to know what works. I want to know where they laugh. I want to know where they don't laugh. I want to know what they think about it afterwards because in the end that's what the art that I'm working with is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantArtEndsLaughing Author:George Lucas
“Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingDifferentCertainFallActorsDifficultLaughingComedyKeysDramaNotesResponseRhythmInstantGet AwayFlatsSensibilityOrchestraGood WritingGreat ActorsComedicMake Someone Laugh Author:Aimee Garcia
“For about three years I was performing at one bar in East Los Angeles that was like a mean dive bar. You're in there performing for drunks or bikers, not the most flattering people. I think it helped build my confidence, because you have to get their attention, then make them laugh.” PeopleThinkingYearsMeanThreeAttentionLaughingEastBarsPerformingLos AngelesThree YearsFlatteringBikers Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh.” ThinkingSometimesHelpingAudienceLaughingComedyFrontsSceneCriticalUber Author:John Cena
“I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.” PeopleThinkingLaughingJokesMaking People LaughHumorists Author:Dick Gregory
“My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create a character that you think is funny. Some comedians get into bad habits when they are trying to create something that is not them, and they are trying to write a voice that isn't their true voice.” ThinkingWritingTryingCharacterVoiceLaughingAdviceHabitComedianBad HabitsMake You LaughReally True Author:Dane Cook
“I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.” PeopleThinkingLaughingComedyGreaterRewardsEveryday Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I think only things that are personal to us offend us. It's always bizarre when people who would normally laugh at an AIDS joke won't laugh at a cancer joke, but far more people know somebody who's died from cancer.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLaughingJokesDiedCancerAidsBizarre Author:Jim Jefferies
“I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.” ThinkingMadeRememberClassLaughingTeacherFailingTroubleEntertainmentPassingPassingsClownPassing It Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to think about, and we have a need for, what I would call, "the transcendent" or "the numinous" or even "the ecstatic" that comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't respond to things of that sort.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsGivingDiesLaughingKnow HowLandscapeTranscendentEcstaticMusic And LoveNuminous Author:Christopher Hitchens
“My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.” IfsThinkingTryingMadeUseHomeWould BeMotherParentAttentionLaughingComedyChildhoodHumourLonelyRaisedWittyMaidsFunny And Witty Author:Robin Williams
“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.” ThinkingNeedsKindSchoolGuyStuffHalfOpinionLaughingMinutesInformationTenPercentHigh SchoolAccessBarsDumbIdiotMake SenseLoudRealisingDumb GuyInformed Opinions Author:Bill Burr
“People still want to escape, but today's escape is different. People now want to know that there are people out there who have more problems and are a train-wreck! This is why I think it's difficult for sitcoms these days, because people are not going to believe, joke, beat, beat, joke, because there ain't nothing to laugh about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantBelieveStillsDifferentProblemTodayDifficultLaughingBeatsJokesTrainThese DaysDifferent PeoplesWrecksSitcomTrain Wrecks Author:Darius McCrary
“People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.” PeopleThinkingFunLaughingNiceEasierLaughterAngryHaving FunConvince Author:Mechai Viravaidya
“In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.” ThinkingAbleLaughingNew ZealandLaugh At Yourself Author:Murray Mexted
“I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.” PeopleThinkingFactsArtistEmotionAudienceLaughingCryExcitedFrustratedWorth ItMaking People Laugh Author:Elisha Cuthbert
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.” PeopleThinkingLoveLifeInspirationalPersonsImportantInspiringLaughingLaughterImportant ThingsHonestlyCuresMultitudesMaking People LaughMake Me LaughHave A LaughSmile And LaughLaughs And SmilesHumor And LaughterLove And LaughterHappiness And LaughterManicuresHe Makes Me LaughYou Make Me Laugh Author:Audrey Hepburn
“And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'” ThinkingMayHas BeensLaughingAddSophisticatedRetrospect Author:Dave Van Ronk