Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Rebecca Miller

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

Ray Winstone

I went to the audition for a laugh and got the part for the way I walked down the corridor. There's no justice is there? [on getting a role from an audition

Tucker Max

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

Tucker Carlson

Who laughs less than feminists?

Sandra Bullock

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

Roseanne Barr

Laugh every day as much as you can.

Roger Ebert

We laugh, that we may not cry,

Robin McKinley

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Roberto Benigni

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Robert Plant

I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much.

Sandra Bernhard

Random things make me laugh.

Vivien Leigh

It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

William Hung

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

William Joyce

Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!

Willie Aames

Nobody makes me laugh like my wife.

Will Rogers

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

W. C. Fields

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

Zachary Knighton

Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

Zach Braff

I guess sometimes God just needs to laugh

Yvette Nicole Brown

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.

William Hazlitt

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

Walter Mosley

I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again.

William Blake

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

Wentworth Miller

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.

Wallace Shawn

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

Samuel Richardson

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Samuel Beckett

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Whitney Houston

Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll cry. Life never tells us, the when's or why's. When you've got friends, to wish you well. You'll find your point when. You will exhale.

Walton Goggins

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

Wanda Sykes

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

Wanda Sykes

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

Joseph Epstein

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.