The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Lenny Bruce

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck Palahniuk

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia Woolf

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
Jay Leno

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
Steven Spielberg

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
Jim Carrey

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Jim Carrey

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.
Milton Berle

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Niels Bohr

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Henry Ward Beecher

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
Henry Ward Beecher

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.
Charles M. Schulz

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.
Jimmy Buffett

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
Dane Cook