“The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.” ThinkingMindPersonsNightSpeakStuffAudienceLaughingEvery NightMake You LaughSpeak Your MindNight Vision Author:Joe Rogan
“Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.” ThinkingWritingWalksLaughingMake Me Laugh Author:Demetri Martin
“I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.” PeopleThinkingBookLaughingHavensHumorousDelusionAggressiveGod DelusionPolarizing Author:Richard Dawkins
“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.” IfsThinkingWantWritingFirstsMightLaughingJokesBoringDisagreeTopics Author:Chris Rock
“I'm totally normal in every respect, but I have this one quirk - I can't give out a number without laughing. It's a problem when I'm giving my credit card number over the phone because they always think: 'He must have just stolen it.'” ThinkingGivingI CanProblemNumbersLaughingNormalPhonesCreditCardsStolenCredit CardQuirks Author:Emo Philips
“I think we all feel the same things most of the time, we just don't know how to put it into words. When I'm on stage, I say it. The truth makes people laugh.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsTruthLaughingKnow HowStageMaking People Laugh Author:George Lopez
“I think just about everyone is doing something that's completely different from what you've seen them do before or a stretch in some way. Like Brandon Routh is so funny, he's awesome. And Chris Evans is hilarious. I mean, he's always funny but just in this character, it's like, I mean I could barely stop laughing on a single take, it was unbelievable. So I think everybody's going to be really, really happy with all the [exes?].” ThinkingWayMeanDifferentCharacterLaughingUnbelievableExesReally Happy Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.” ThinkingMindHas BeensAbilityLaughingGraceSavingLaughedSaneSaving Grace Author:Kim Wilde
“I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece.” PeopleThinkingLooksCharacterFunLaughingCome UpMasterpieceNicholsonExorcistHave A LaughGremlins Author:Linda Blair
“Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsImportantStoriesFilmLaughingMissingCryEmotionalImpactIngredientsLevity Author:Cary Fukunaga
“I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.” ThinkingWantGivingKidsRememberFacesHoursLaughingSawsStupidArmsMomDecidedLet MeDiedGlassesBurnedI Want YouAntsYour MomGreat DayMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Bill Engvall
“You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.” ThinkingWayKindSometimesArtistValuesDarkAudienceLaughingFailingSubjectsMissingJokesFaultsWork OutComedianEdgy Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“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.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsAgeLaughingMonthsNeededSixConsciousNineShellsSix MonthsMaking People LaughNine Months Author:Arj Barker
“I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I said, I wanna be a comedian, I wanna get good.' You're not good in the beginning. You're still trying to figure out what the things are that you are going to talk about, what your angle is going to be and there's a lot of trial and error. I just never gave up and that was the beginning of my career. Just experimenting, trying it out and falling in love with it.” PeopleThinkingTryingSaidStillsFallFoundCareersLaughingFiguresCollegeSeriousErrorsFalling In LoveTrialsEnjoyedComedianAngleGave UpMaking People LaughMake Me HappyTrial And Error Author:Bill Bellamy
“I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment.” ThinkingLaughingEntertainmentAdsMake Me LaughFerguson Author:Andy Kindler
“My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksI CanGuyLaughingCreativeRichBrotherEasierTaxesStrangerSpendingProfessionSavingMy BrotherComponentsRich PeopleSaving MoneyManageableLife Saving Author:Gary Gulman
“I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingStillsI CanCareAudienceLaughingStageConfidenceDon't CareI Don't CareSeducingEvery Second Author:Greg Proops
“Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in front of a mirror and never go to a club. We are giving this away. Some people are going through so much in their lives, they want to hear something else that's going on in the world and laugh.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantGivingWantedLaughingFrontsMirrorsClubsHonestlyComedianTherapists Author:J. B. Smoove
“I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveLooksI BelieveEasySimpleLaughingTakenOrdinaryPhotographerPhotographTouchedOrdinary PeopleWince Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
“I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.” ThinkingMadeHardLaughing Author:Dylan Moran
“I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.” ThinkingI CanCareRememberSleepLaughingClockGoing To Sleep Author:Graeme Souness
“Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.” ThinkingFeelsTryingStillsSometimesHardWholeBodyFacesLaughingPaperComfortablePaintEdgesGiantsBagsPaper BagsStraight Edge Author:Lady Gaga
“I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.” ThinkingReadingLaughingStreetsChildhoodTaughtDadConcernedRadioInterviewsWeekendMumTruckLove Of ReadingRad Author:Brooke Fraser
“As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.” ThinkingTryingLyingGrowsLaughingTalentCallingArrangementsLyricists Author:Zach Condon
“On any given day, my daughters would snuggle in bed with my wife and me. We just hug and kiss each other. We laugh out loud and act completely silly. I stop and think to myself, "This is love."” ThinkingGivenLaughingWifeBedKissingDaughterMy WifeSillyLoudMy DaughterHugLaugh Out Loud Author:Jacob Vargas
“I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.” PeopleThinkingLaughingStupidMaking People LaughLove Making Author:Brian Littrell
“Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.” PeopleThinkingImportantPayAttentionTalkingLaughingComedyConversationStartingPay AttentionBeing YourselfStarting Out Author:Natasha Leggero
“I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.” ThinkingGivingJoyCoursesCommunityLaughingGreaterSittingMinimumSitting AroundFamily Friends Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'” PeopleThinkingHumansLooksPersonsStatesMovingLaughingNiceDangerExpectedAdmirePubsNice PersonHave A Laugh Author:Jo Brand
“I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRealHandsMistakeLaughingStageThousandReal LifeStaringMicrophonesCockyCockiness Author:Russell Peters
“I think I was always able to laugh a lot at the industry - to be detached from it, even if some of the other models weren't. Jeez - it's hardly rocket science, is it? It's not as if you can get to be a better model..... .you can either get away with it, or you cant? And most of them were also acutely aware of the passage of time.....and how it would affect their careers.” IfsThinkingAbleCareersLaughingIndustryModelsGet AwayPassagesCantRocketsDetachedPassage Of TimeRocket Science Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I laugh when I end up on the worst-dressed lists. I'm not trying to be fashionable. I know I'm kind of a cartoon character. Do people honestly think I'm wearing a kafkan in order to be fashionable?” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingKindEndsCharacterOrderLaughingWorstListsHonestlyCartoonFashionableCartoon Character Author:Pamela Anderson
“I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayShowsFilmStuffAudienceLaughingComedyShort Films Author:Alice Lowe
“I do a little improv in my shows. Kind of like our movie, I'll do beats and ideas of dialogue, but I think there's less pressure because it's a live show. If you mess up, the audience laughs because we don't really know what we're doing. But as far as shooting, that was very scary, trying to make a point and drive the film. It definitely helped improvising.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingKindLittlesIdeasShowsFilmAudienceLaughingBeatsPressureScaryDialogueMessShootingImprovising Author:Charlyne Yi
“I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these little autobiographical secrets behind things. I think I was really attacking my earlier self, and this kind of pretentious figure.” ThinkingKnowsKindLittlesSelfFeltLosesSecretBehindsLaughingFiguresAttackingPretentiousNothing To Lose Author:Billy Collins
“However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see what outrageous stories can be told in the United States and then are accepted by many educated people and academics as facts. Movies get awards, books become best sellers, heroes are made, and people become wealthy as a result of dishonest caricatures of Iranian people and society.” PeopleThinkingMadeBookMatterStatesFactsStoriesUnitedResultsUnited StatesLaughingStudentsHeroMy FriendsAcceptedEducatedWealthyAwardsFrighteningOutrageousIranianCaricaturesSellersBest Sellers Author:Mohammad Marandi
“I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantCertainReadingEnjoyLaughingEffectsEmotionalImportant ThingsReactionsSpectrumBeing FunnyEmotional Reactions Author:Matthew Zapruder
“I tried the line out on some people on the street, like, "What do you think of this: 'the art of family life is to not take it personally'?" And they would laugh. But you know, everybody's got something going on in their families, and then once you have kids, that of course exponentially rises.” PeopleThinkingKnowsArtKidsLife IsCoursesLinesLaughingStreetsFamily Life Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff
“I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsLaughingTenMake Me Laugh Author:Chelsea Martin
“My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'” PeopleThinkingLongSaidCareLaughingSonDadDon't CareI Don't CareMy Son Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue to work because I'm good at my craft. I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.” ThinkingTryingBodyBeautifulLaughingCryProducersCraftsFantasticDedicatedCrewGorgeousDrop Dead Gorgeous Author:Adina Porter
“I think if you look after yourself on a regular basis, and do the prep beforehand, you don't need to put lots of effort into looking good. It's about finding the right balance - if you have a good diet, drink lots of water, exercise regularly and sleep, you won't look bad on a regular basis. Then you can afford the occasional naughty slip up once in a while, going out and having a delicious glass of wine with friends, having a great laugh and chat then realizing its 2am isn't so bad - you've put in the hard work!” IfsThinkingNeedsLooksHardWaterRealizingSleepEffortLaughingHard WorkBalanceExerciseDrinkFindingsBasesWineGlassesDietsSlipsGoing OutDeliciousLooking GoodOccasionalNaughtyWine GlassPrepsWine With FriendsLook After Yourself Author:Cat Deeley
“The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.” ThinkingWayHeartHardStoriesCausesMistakeSilenceLaughingHorrorPureElementsDefinitionsMonstersStorytellingClassicBroadsVillainLambsThrillersProtagonistsHorror StoriesSneaky Author:Bryan Fuller
“There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantWritingWellsLittlesForceCommunityExistenceLaughingCenturyGardenFeministDrivingInnocenceCooksGood TimesFarmsThinkerInward20th CenturyHaving A Good TimeHarvardDriving ForceAbolitionistGradFree ThinkersCommunalism Author:Christine Jennings
“I always laugh because I used to think the week before anyone saw me on "Charlie's Angels," nobody cared what I ate, how I exercised, what clothes I wore. Nobody was interested and the minute I was on "Charlie's Angels" everything I said was interesting.” ThinkingSaidUsedInterestingLaughingSawsWeekMinutesClothesAngelCharlieNobody CaresCharlie's Angels Author:Cheryl Ladd
“Probably I'm more of a fan of the literary references than the pop-culture references. But I do go to the pop-culture well quite frequently because people, I think, are sort of inherently ready to laugh at that. It's a free laugh almost. Usually, everybody gets it.” PeopleThinkingWellsCultureLaughingFansReadyPopsPop Culture Author:Adam Reed
“As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHumansImportantStoriesLevelsDealsLaughingViolenceCallingConsequenceCarefulSensitiveFilmmakerBe CarefulCensorshipMaking People Laugh Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's just yourself and songs that you've picked up because you love them and stories that you've written yourself and patter you think is really funny if that tanks, there's no one to blame it on. God knows, I try!” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingStoriesSongLaughingWrittenMaterialsBlameFaultsGod KnowsTanks Author:Jason Graae
“I tell you a joke to have you listen to me, and then maybe I will tell you another joke that we can laugh together and feel equal. And then I will tell you a story hopefully that will make you cry. So I think that's the way that I approach the columns, as a surviving tool in a way.” ThinkingWayFeelsStoriesTogetherLaughingCryEqualApproachJokesToolsHopefullySurvivingColumnsListen To MeMake You Cry Author:Sayed Kashua