Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Fortier

She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act.

Anne Frank

I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.

Anne Frank

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

Chuck Palahniuk

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.

Chuck Jones

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Christopher Reeve

If I can laugh, I can live.

Christopher Reeve

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

Christopher Marlowe

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

Christopher Morley

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Angie Harmon

I'm the kind of person who wants the people around me to be comfortable, to laugh, and to have a fabulous time - I want them to be as happy as I am.

Andrew Carnegie

There is very little success where there is very little laughter.

Anthony de Mello

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

Anne Taintor

Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.

Anne Stevenson

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Allison Janney

Comedy is a serious business. It's frustrating when I can't find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don't make them laugh, I get very disappointed in myself. You don't really have a live audience, so you just depend on the crew to let you know if you're doing something funny.

Allison Williams

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

Allison Williams

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

Anna Eshoo

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

Andrew Marr

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

laughter is always fatal to feeling ...

Andrew Dice Clay

I just like to make people laugh.

Andrew Dice Clay

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

Ambrose Bierce

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

Ambrose Bierce

Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.

Anthony Hopkins

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

Anthony Hopkins

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.

Anthony Kiedis

I have to laugh at myself.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.