It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
The highest state is laughter.
Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.
I like Robo Shankar – he evokes laughter, he has a unique body language and style. I loved all scenes of his in ‘Maari.’
Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We’d sit around the dinner table and try to one-up each other. It sometimes ended in tears, but usually in laughter.
If I were to distill my household, it was a passion for social justice and a love for food and laughter.
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I like laughter around me.
Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.
Laughter is the best medicine – unless you’re diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.
I’ve made great friends through acting. When I’m with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.
Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That’s why you need a strong line of communication… which includes laughter.
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
In ‘Malvolio,’ the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It’s an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves – and maybe a smile.
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
People are always coming up to me and saying, ‘I love you, love your work.’ And then the next sentence is, ‘I loved your brother.’ John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.
I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.
I’m grateful for laughter of any kind, but it can be off-putting if one person is laughing at a different time or in a different way from the rest of the audience.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
When people say, ‘I don’t like laughter on a TV show’, I think, ‘How do you cope when you’re watching a stand-up gig live?’ – it’s the same thing!
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don’t laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that’s not real laughter.
We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
If you became a comedian in the ’80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you’ll find out here’s the other side. You’ll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.
I love to make people laugh, and I believe that laughter and song are the best way to help young children learn.
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier.
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can’t really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it’s a reaction to genuine horror.
I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can’t laugh at yourself, then you can’t laugh at life and the silliness of it all.
You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die happy.
Laughter is God’s blessing.
Dad was, is, and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I’ve ever known, and while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful, and less full of laughter in his absence.
I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by – I’m going to be very nervous about the isolated patient’s mental status.
When I think of the books I love, there’s always a little laughter in the dark.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once ‘The Great Indian Laughter Challenge’ was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy – laughter is universal, and I don’t differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There’s no reason why one person can’t relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
I don’t need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It’s like nature’s Neosporin.
