Laughing Quotes

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

My favorite thing in the world was to make people sing - until I made people laugh. Then that became my favorite thing in the world.

It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.

If you can't laugh at yourself or take any type of criticism or comment about yourself, I think it's more of a reflection of you.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

I like to laugh. I like to have a good time. I don't like to be so serious about things, so I would want a guy who would want to laugh and have a good time, too.

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be willing to talk to me.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

Even in despair, man must laugh.

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should.

What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

I don't laugh at people any more when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself!

With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.