Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Even though standup seems like one-way conversation, if you’re doing it right, it’s actually a two-way discussion between the comic and the audience… the audience just happens to be communicating through laughter.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
I believe that when people try to live their life at the fullest, there’s a certain laughter that comes out of it. The more they try to live their life seriously, the funnier it is.
Laughter kills lonesome. It’s one of the great things in our lives.
I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny ‘stuff’ but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again – I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.
When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.
I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It’s like nature’s Neosporin.
People come up to me and they thank me: ‘I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.’
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.
My mantra is – eat little less than your hunger level, consume double the quantity of water, your workout must be tripled, and dose of laughter must be four times!
‘Tickle Monster’ is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn’t it?
I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It’s the little things in life that make me happy.
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
Laughter cures everything.
The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it’s not scripted. It’s more of a conversation with my audience. And that’s what people like about the show – it’s very real. There are mistakes and laughter.
Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.
I don’t tend to read much comedy, but there’s a fake advertisement section at the end of Derren Brown’s book ‘Pure Effect’ which always makes me cry with laughter every time I come across it.
Audience laughter, when it’s deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.
I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
I don’t have a particular type of woman. But I like to have fun and, while looks will go some way, laughter is extremely important.
A lot of sexism is just very silly… and the best response is laughter and ridicule.
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
If Heaven exists, to know that there’s laughter, that would be a great thing.
So actually, for me, ‘Doctor Who,’ you want it to be the show with all the emotions and all the feels, really, and that you’ve had a good emotional workout, from laughter to tears to fear and excitement.
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.
I’ve kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I’m doing.
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
The one thing I think I’ve noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they’ve sort of become routinized, so there’s an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don’t question. It was a gift from God.
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.
Laughter is inner jogging.
I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There’s admiration for people I admire, but it’s not guttural laughter. It’s a wry ‘Oh, well done, sir.’ But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.
Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one’s emotions, and of failure to repress the soul’s frivolity by a stern use of reason.
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Growing up, I was always enthralled by Ronnie Barker. He made my dad howl with laughter, which always intrigued me, and he had the rare gift of being as good a performer as he was a writer.
Even in my comedies, I don’t take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think it’s fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
