And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.
I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'
I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.
The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.
My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.
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.
Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.
I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.
I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it's great fun.
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.
I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
All the other guys I think had a scream on Lock, Stock. They just had a laugh and a crack, and thought it would never come out; they were just having a good time. On this one, I felt that.
In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.
I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.
Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.
I would get my laugh insured! Because my laugh is very important: it's a million dollar laugh, so if my vocal chords make my laugh any different, then I'm going to have to get insured.
They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'
I have to laugh at myself.
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.