Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jo Brand

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

Jimmy Carter

Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.

Jimmy Carter

I don't laugh at people any more when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself!

John C. Reilly

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

John C. Reilly

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

James Patterson

Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)

James Patterson

A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.

James Mangold

What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

Emily Browning

I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.

Emily Dickinson

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

Ellen Terry

The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.

Henry Van Dyke

O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free...

Helen Mirren

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'

Heather Morris

I want to make everybody laugh.

Henry Ward Beecher

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

Khandi Alexander

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

Khalil Gibran

Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous

Khalil Gibran

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

Og Mandino

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

Og Mandino

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

Norman Wisdom

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

Norman Lear

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

Orhan Pamuk

Happiness is laughing together...

Oleg Cassini

A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.

Michael Buble

I love that I'm able to take people away just for a little while. Even if they come to my show and it's an escape from taxes or heartbreak or a shitty workplace experience - all those human beings I get to sing for laugh and emote with give me more happiness than I could ever give them.

Michael Caine

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

Merrie Spaeth

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

Merle Haggard

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.

Mason Cooley

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

Michael Crawford

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

Mark Driscoll

You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.

Marie Dressler

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

Ted Cruz

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.