I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.
You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.
A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.
I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.
I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.
I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoying, because you're like, 'Come on, it's bedtime!' But try it: You'll fill up before you know it, because it takes 20 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is full.
I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.
Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.
I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.
Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.
I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
There's no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women; I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.
I get paid to not laugh.
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there.
All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
