Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz. That's kinda cool because jazz is cool, but sometimes jazz sucks ... Maybe I'm the Kenny G of comedy.

Mike Birbiglia

Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do.

Nathan Fillion

When I watch TV I can tell when someone is punching the joke and telling me when to laugh. I'll decide when to laugh, thank you very much.

Nathan Fillion

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

Nancy Mitford

Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?

Kelly Stables

I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

Keegan-Michael Key

I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

Kathy Najimy

I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.

Julian Clary

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke

Ken Kesey

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

Katie Price

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

Mark Twain

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Mark Twain

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Mark Twain

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe

Nicole Polizzi

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.

Nicholas Stoller

I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused because we weren't doing the script. We were doing all this improv and then Diddy says to him... Pharrell's like I don't understand what's going on and Diddy goes, "We do a lot of improv". (laughter) I remember being we just made him into a comedy nerd. We somehow turned Sean Combs into a comedy nerd, so.

Nicholas Stoller

And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.

Nicholas Sparks

In the eulogy by the graveside, I told everyone how my sister and I used to sing to each other on our birthday. I told them that, when I thought of my sister, I could still hear her laughter, sense her optimism, and feel her faith. I told them that my sister was the kindest person I;ve ever known, and that the world was a sadder place without her in it. And finally, I told them to remember my sister with a smile, like I did, for even though she was being buried near my parents, the best parts of her would always stay alive, deep within our hearts.

Mark Buchanan

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Publilius Syrus

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

Patricia A. Woertz

Im sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.

Patch Adams

People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.

Lilly Pulitzer

We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life

Ken Dodd

Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.

Margaret Atwood

Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

Kelly Bishop

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

Margaret Cho

I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.

Margaret Cho

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Margaret Atwood

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.