Laugh Quotes

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
Quintilian

Costs, Expense, Propriety

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Quintilian

Virtue, Costs, Expense

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Good, Confidence, Training

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.
Andre Benjamin

Cool, Makes, Themselves

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
Jim Dale

Good, Rather, Easy

Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.
Jeffrey Kluger

Time, Smart, Off

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
Gabrielle Union

Work, Home, Happy

You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
Gabrielle Union

Work, Home, Happy

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
Hugh Grant

Fact, Secret, Tart

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
Theodore Bikel

Time, Live, May

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.
Jena Malone

Good, Hard, Times

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
Graham Greene

Often, Solitary

I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing.
Sloane Crosley

Writing, Through, Trying

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.
John le Carre

Him, Down, Wish

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
Len Wein

Job, Someone, Done

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.
Sara Blakely

Funny, Made, Word

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!
Paula Radcliffe

Dreams, Good, After

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.
Eric Bana

Someone, Idea, Getting

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?
Eric Bana

Character, Able, Jump

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
Steve Coogan

Funny, Great, Simple

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.
Steve Coogan

Moment, Between, Making

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.
Nigella Lawson

Makes, Knows, Chef

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith

Best, Yourself, Start

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.
Rowan Atkinson

Person, Able, Rather

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.
Jane Pauley

Love, Working, Audience

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.
Craig Ferguson

Aware, Creepy, Apparently

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.
Trey Parker

Religion, America, Religious

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.
Trey Parker

Someone, Trying, Said

People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.
Drew Carey

Forget, Troubles

I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them.
Drew Carey

Someone, Said, Else

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