My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.
Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters – you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way.
We don’t have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn’t have that, so it’s hard for Middle America to catch on.
I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.
I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It’s kind of nice to mix it up.
You know, honestly, if a girl can make me laugh, I’m pretty much sold.
I don’t have any set things that I’m looking for, like, ‘I’ve done this now I want to do this,’ kind of thing. Just read the material, if it appeals, if it makes me laugh: like, ‘Death at a Funeral’ made me laugh out loud.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on ‘Laugh In’ in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.
As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.
In day-to-day life we are really bouncy. We like to laugh a lot.
My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I’m not happy because there’s nothing better for me than a world that everybody’s just trying to make each other laugh.
‘Instructions Not Included’ is proving that there is a huge Latin market that needs a special project. They love seeing their own people; they want to see themselves onscreen. In my case, I know them pretty well. I know what they laugh at. I think it’s going to open a lot of doors, this movie.
What’s funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.
I don’t laugh out loud at comics a lot.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
I did this movie called ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God,’ and I was an extra, and it was a movie that Oprah was producing. She had walked by, and I was making all the other extras laugh, and she said, ‘You’re a very funny young lady.’ I was like, ‘Eeeee!’
