Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter S. Beagle

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

Peter Cook

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

Rachel Dratch

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True wit never made us laugh.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

Selma Blair

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?

Selma Blair

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

Shunryu Suzuki

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Lesley Nicol

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.

Larry Charles

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often I'm surprised at what an audience will or will not laugh at. I have to stay very, very open to an audiences first exposure to that material and how they react to it.

Larry David

Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest.

Larry David

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

Kylie Minogue

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

Neil Simon

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Suzanne Collins

Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

Suzanne Collins

Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell

Steve Toltz

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

Stephen Leacock

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

Stephen King

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

Stephen King

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

Sophia Bush

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

Marc Maron

My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.

Shel Silverstein

Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.

Sharon Horgan

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

Neil Peart

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

Natalie Portman

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

Natalie Portman

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

Natalie Portman

We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.

Taylor Swift

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

Taylor Swift

I just want to spend the rest of my life with someone who makes me smile, laugh, feel special, and supports me.

Robert A. Heinlein

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

Robert A. Heinlein

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.