Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Beck

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

Mark Gatiss

We turned the lights off to save money, so you can't really see it. It's the same show. Hopefully, there are lots of laughs and lots of great personal stuff, but it is explicitly a darker season [4 of Sherlock Holmes].

Paul Rudd

I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

Mehmet Oz

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.

Michael Rosenbaum

With all the horror in the world and all the crap that`s going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That`s what a movie is all about.

Michael O'Donoghue

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

Mark Twain

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

Marilyn Manson

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

Marilyn Manson

I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.

George Carlin

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.

Christopher Hitchens

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Christina Aguilera

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Christian Lacroix

I look for friends who make me laugh.

Chris Rock

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

Chris Rock

The only reaction that frightens me is people not laughing. It's extraordinary to me when you get a laugh. That you can go in front of a bunch of people you never met before, you can say some stuff and they all laugh in unison - that's amazing. It's a miracle.

Chris Rock

When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

Francesca Lia Block

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

George Meyer

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

George Meyer

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If the person laughs well, they are a good person.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

Milarepa

Osho would do mischievous things like sign my name to someone else's question. Or take my question and sign it with someone else's name! Sometimes he would laugh just hearing my name read. At other times, he would appear stern and administer a 'hit'. I could never predict what he was going to do, nor how he would react. Want some advice? Never try to second-guess the master.

Mila Kunis

If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.

Mila Kunis

It doesn't matter if you're play-pretending crying or play-pretending laughing, you're still play-pretending.

Milan Kundera

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Mara Wilson

I was getting keys for my apartment, and I asked if I could get doubles, because I'm forgetful, and the woman there said, "Yeah, but it costs $5." I was like, "Oh, okay." But then she said, "Actually, you know what, I'm just going to give it to you for free. You were in that movie Mrs. Doubtfire, and that movie really helped me out in a time when I needed it. It got me through something, and it made me laugh when I needed to laugh.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The next time you’re tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.

Jose Saramago

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

Joni Mitchell

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

Joni Mitchell

Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.

Kelley Armstrong

He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second....and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went. "Bully

Joan Allen

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.