Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene Ionesco

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

Ethel Merman

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

Fede Alvarez

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

Fanny Brice

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.

Francesca Lia Block

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

George Meyer

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

George Meyer

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If the person laughs well, they are a good person.

Chris Pratt

You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.

Jean Cocteau

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

Jean Cocteau

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

Jean Cocteau

I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter.

George Carlin

No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

George Carlin

Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

George Carlin

Suppose I could shoot myself in the mouth, but what if I miss? People will laugh at me.

Gene Roddenberry

In a better world, I can do anything. I'll be there in a better world. In a better world, they will not laugh at me or look down their nose at me.

Garth Nix

I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh...

Frederick Buechner

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

Felicity Kendal

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

Henry Miller

If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.

Cassandra Clare

Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.' Technically,' said Simon, 'I can.' Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he was trying not to laugh, and only semi-succeeding.

Cassandra Clare

He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

Cassandra Clare

Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." -Raphael & Jace, pg.272-

Cassandra Clare

Why are you such an asshat?" "An asshat?" Jace looked as if he were about to laugh.

Gabourey Sidibe

I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

Frank Capra

The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they surrender - surrender their defenses, their hostilities. And once you make an audience laugh, they're with you. And they listen to you if you've got something to say. I have a theory that if you can make them laugh, they're your friends.

Chris Hardwick

There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

Christine Feehan

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

He's always trying to make us laugh -- no matter what it takes. He's crazy. He's one of those guys, he'll do anything.

Jeanette Winterson

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Jennifer Garner

I'd rather be the bloke laughing at other people. I don't need to make people laugh. I surround myself with funny people. I laugh all the time.

Georges Bataille

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.