You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.
The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.
I have always been down to test what I can do and push the limits of my acting. I have always wanted to try new genres and stuff - but I love comedy. I grew up on comedy, and I love having a good time and making people laugh. But it is also really nice to switch it around and make people think and feel some darker emotions.
I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.
I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.
If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!
I like jokes, but Ray and I, we never did jokes. We weren't in that line of humor. We each contributed our own kind of observations. I'm glad to have people look at and laugh at and respect and get some creative juice out of what we did by observing.
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.
Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.
I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.
My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.
An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.
I try to laugh as much as possible and enjoy the company of people who can make me laugh.
When doing comedy, I do what makes me laugh. The first person I learned from said I should talk about things I am passionate about - that I love or hate - because the audience likes to see passion. The stuff I rant and rave about stems from a place that really pisses me off.