Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Whitman

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

Tom Hanks

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

Tina Fey

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

Tina Fey

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

Russell Simmons

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

Susan Cain

It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.

Shel Silverstein

Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.

Sharon Horgan

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

Natalie Portman

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

Natalie Portman

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

Natalie Portman

We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.

Taylor Swift

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

Taylor Swift

I just want to spend the rest of my life with someone who makes me smile, laugh, feel special, and supports me.

Thomas Merton

We love the things we pretend to laugh at.

Tom Waits

I was always laughing in church.

Tom Waits

There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.

Steve Martin

Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.

Steve Carell

The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.

Steve Carell

Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded.

Steve Carell

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.

Shailene Woodley

My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

Reese Witherspoon

People seem to really enjoy laughing at me.

Reese Witherspoon

There's something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.

Tina Yothers

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

Tite Kubo

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.

Tim Hawkins

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

Tim Heidecker

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.

Robert A. Heinlein

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

Robert A. Heinlein

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

Ringo Starr

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

Ringo Starr

We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.

Ringo Starr

For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

Tiger Woods

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?