Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

Never perform for your family. They either laugh too hard or not at all.

Bryan Cranston

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

Moliere

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Milton Berle

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.

Mike Birbiglia

Essentially, retweets are like laughs.

Mike Birbiglia

I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for years.

Mike Birbiglia

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz. That's kinda cool because jazz is cool, but sometimes jazz sucks ... Maybe I'm the Kenny G of comedy.

Mike Birbiglia

Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do.

Nathan Fillion

When I watch TV I can tell when someone is punching the joke and telling me when to laugh. I'll decide when to laugh, thank you very much.

Nathan Fillion

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

Nancy Mitford

Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?

Keenen Ivory Wayans

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

Keegan-Michael Key

I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

Kathy Najimy

I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.

Julian Clary

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke

Ken Kesey

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

Ice Cube

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.

Isaiah Washington

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

Isaiah Mustafa

I just like making people laugh.

Isla Fisher

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

Ina May Gaskin

It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

Geraldine McCaughrean

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

J. K. Rowling

[about his dress robes...] I’m never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never." "Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh.

H. L. Mencken

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

Grace Lin

Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

George Herbert

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

George Herbert

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

Jessica Simpson

laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.

Jennifer Aniston

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

Jeanne Calment

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

Giacomo Leopardi

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.