Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Diane Lane

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Diane Lane

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

Edgar Allan Poe

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Aubrey Plaza

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Aristotle

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

Ben Kingsley

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

Alexandra Roach

Be positive and laugh at everything.

Alex Borstein

I am a fan of whatever makes me laugh my ass off. If it happens to be a Jew joke, then it's a Jew joke.

Alexander Lebed

He who shoots first laughs last.

Adolf Eichmann

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

Adam Savage

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Adam Sandler

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

Adam Sandler

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

Adam Sandler

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

Adam Carolla

I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

Ryan Gosling

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

Abel Ferrara

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

A. Whitney Brown

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Abby Elliott

I want to make people laugh.

Agatha Christie

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

Adrian Rogers

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

Adam McKay

I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

Adam McKay

As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

Abraham Cowley

The monster London laugh at me.

Abraham Maslow

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

Corrie Ten Boom

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Colin Quinn

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Louis C. K.

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

William Shakespeare

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

William Shakespeare

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.