Laughter Quotes
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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
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“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
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“'The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.' - e. e. cummings”
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“Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.”
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“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
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“Laughter is an instant vacation.”
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“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.”
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“There is little success where there is little laughter.”
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“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”
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“From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”
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“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
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“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
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“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
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“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.”
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
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“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”
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“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
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“It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.”
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“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
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“Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.”
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“Laughter is God's blessing.”
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“We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
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“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
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“If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.”
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“A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.”
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“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
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“I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.”
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“Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.”
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“Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.”
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“Laughter is America's most important export.”
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“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
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“I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.”
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“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
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“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.”
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“I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.”
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“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”
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“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”
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“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”
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“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
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“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”
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“To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.”
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“If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.”
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“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.”
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“Laughter was a part of the church services I attended as a child.”
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“Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.”
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“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.”
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“All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.”
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“Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.”
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“A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.”
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“Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!”
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“Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.”
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“Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.”
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“Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.”
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“Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.”
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“Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.”
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“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”
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“It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.”
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“I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.”
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“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”
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“Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.”
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“So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.”
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“So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.”
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“Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.”
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“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.”
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“Laughter can bring a new perspective.”
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“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
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“The highest state is laughter.”
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“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
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“It seems that laughter needs an echo.”
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“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
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“I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.”
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“Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.”
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“Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.”
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“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.”
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“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”
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“Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.”
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“We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.”
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“Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.”
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“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.”
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“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”
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“So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.”
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“There's nothing better than having a bright, blinding light in your face and being guided by big, rolling laughter. There's nothing more encouraging than hearing that huge sound. I've waited my whole life to hear that. You come away with the biggest high of your life.”
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“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
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“I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them feel good.”
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“Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.”
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“I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.”
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“Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.”
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“You hear people say, 'We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.' It's full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!”
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“He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.”
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“Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.”
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“Dad was, is, and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I've ever known, and while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful, and less full of laughter in his absence.”
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“There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.”
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“From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.”
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“I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.”
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“Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.”
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“I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.”
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“One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?”
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“I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.”
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“Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.”
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“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
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“Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.”
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“I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.”
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“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.”
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“Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and - most of all - accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.”
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“When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.”
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“I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and my brothers and I love to go to The Mountain Opry when we are home. There is alway an abundance of laughter and joy, and anyone can get up on stage and dance and sing. My family also goes to a candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve. It's such a wonderful way to spend the night before Christmas.”
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“I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.”
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“It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.”
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“Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.”
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“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”
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“I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.”
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“Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.”
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“Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.”
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“Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.”
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“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”
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“God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.”
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“Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter… Where has the laughter gone?”
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“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.”
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“Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.”
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“In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.”
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“The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.”
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“Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.”
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“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.”
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“If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.”
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“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
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“Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.”
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“I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.”
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“Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.”
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“What I love is the comedy of the body. It's a little highfalutin', but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh differently at stuff that isn't brought to them via the spoken word. It's from a different place; it's a different quality of laughter.”
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“Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication… which includes laughter.”
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“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.”
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“My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.”
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“That was my prayer - is that when people watch my videos for whatever that minute is, it takes their mind off of what's going on in the world and it gives them a little bit of peace or a little bit of laughter or a little bit of joy.”
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“The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.”
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“This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.”
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“Laughter is so important.”
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“Laughter is inner jogging.”
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“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.”
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“Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.”
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“I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.”
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“There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.”
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“I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn't know what he was doing; I couldn't see the tricks.”
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“One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.”
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“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”
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“My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.”
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“But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.”
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“I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.”
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“You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.”
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“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.”
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“The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.”
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“The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.”
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“The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.”
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“Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.”
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“I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.”
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“Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.”
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“Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.”
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“I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.”
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“I think my content has a responsibility to bring light every day, whether it's in laughter, whether it's in inspiration, whether it's through food.”
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“Does anyone remember laughter?”
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“We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”
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“Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.”
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“I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.”
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“The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.”
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“Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.”
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“It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.”
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“It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.”
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“Laughter drives shouting away.”
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“'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.”
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“What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.”
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“People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it.”
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“In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.”
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“I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.”
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“Growing up, I was always enthralled by Ronnie Barker. He made my dad howl with laughter, which always intrigued me, and he had the rare gift of being as good a performer as he was a writer.”
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“The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.”
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“Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.”
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“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
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“Laughter is the only currency I've really ever known. Ever since I was a boy.”
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“It's a very simple answer, how to get my abs so defined. I have a very healthy diet of a lot of laughter. If you laugh all the time, you're consistently flexing your abdominals all the time.”
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“Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.”
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“I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.”
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“Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.”
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“Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.”
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“There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping. And there is a kind of cruelty to it, but you can separate finding something horrible funny, and what you really think of it.”
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“I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards.”
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“It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.”
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“The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.”
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“If you got somebody's heart, baby, you got their ear. And if you get their ear, honey, then they can get laughter, and that's what I bring.”
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“Nobody ever died of laughter.”
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“Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.”
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“Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.”
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“The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.”
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“Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.”
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“Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.”
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“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
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“If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.”
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“Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.”
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“When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.”
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“I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.”
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“The house of laughter makes a house of woe.”
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“Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.”
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“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”
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“The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.”
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“Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.”
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“I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.”
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“Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.”
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“We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?”
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“I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?”
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“Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.”
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“Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.”
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“I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.”
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“Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.”
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“For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.”
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“There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.”
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“I just love listening to the laughter.”
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“I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.”
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“I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.”
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“Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.”
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“I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.”
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“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
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“What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.”
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“Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.”
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“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.”
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“When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.”
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“My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.”
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“I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.”
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“Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.”
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“When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.”
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“You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.”
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“We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.”
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“I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.”
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“If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.”
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“I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.”
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“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
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“I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.”
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“When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.”
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“Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.”
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“Shared laughter is erotic too.”
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“There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”
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“One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.”
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“Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.”
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“Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.”
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“The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.”
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“The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.”
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“If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.”
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“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”
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“I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.”
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“I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.”
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“I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.”
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“During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.”
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“I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.”
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“And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.”
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“I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.”
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“I keep my skin - especially on my face and neck - out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I've got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.”
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“Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.”
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“I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.”
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“If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”
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“I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun!”
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“When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.”
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“My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.”
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“I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.”
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“Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.”
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“People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.”
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“You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.”
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“People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'”
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“Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.”
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“Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.”
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“In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.”
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“I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.”
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“I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.”
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“Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.”
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“A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.”
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“That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.”
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“The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.”
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“I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.”
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“You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again… You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.”
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“I like laughter around me.”
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“I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.”
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“I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.”
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“The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.”
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“I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.”
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“I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.”
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“I think laughter is a sacred act.”
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“There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.”
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“I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.”
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“We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.”
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“'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.”
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“I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?”
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“Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.”
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“In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.”
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“It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.”
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“To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.”
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“The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.”
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“I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.”
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“I think there is nothing sexier than laughter lines.”
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“When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.”
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“Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.”
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“My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.”
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“When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.”
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“I know it's corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.”
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“Oh, I laugh hard every day. I mean, my husband is Will Smith! I'm telling you, that's one of the joys of being married to him. My life full of laughter. Thank God I have him. My life is full of laughter because of that man.”
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“Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.”
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“If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.”
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“Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.”
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“All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.”
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“When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.”
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“Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that's appropriate for the character.”
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“One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.'”
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“I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.”
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“Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.”
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“With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.”
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“I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us.”
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“I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.”
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“Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.”
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“I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.”
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“With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.”
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“Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.”
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“There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.”
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“I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.”
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“You know, there's endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.”
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“Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.”
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“I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.”
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“The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.”
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“The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.”
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“In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.”
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“If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.”
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“I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right.”
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“I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.”
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“Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.”
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“I'd like someone tall, dark and nice. Independent and confident. Not a macho man. Perhaps a little bit girly, in a way. The key for me is if we can cry with laughter.”
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“Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.”
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“I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again - I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.”
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“More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.”
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“You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die happy.”
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“When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same thing for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal music playing in the beautiful rooms with so much history caused a lot of laughter.”
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“I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.”
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“The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.”
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“Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport… to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.”
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“Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.”
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“Laughter brings out the child in all of us.”
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“In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.”
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“I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by - I'm going to be very nervous about the isolated patient's mental status.”
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“There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.”
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“My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.”
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“I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.”
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“I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.”
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“Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere.”
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“Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might play some video games that are, let's just say, for mature audiences only. And I might get some flak for this, but I like to watch 'Seinfeld.' Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine.”
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“When you're with Chris Wylde, there's never not laughter.”
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“Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.”
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“Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.”
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“'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.”
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“I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.”
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“I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.”
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“All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.”
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“All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.”
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“There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.”
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“I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.”
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“When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.”
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“I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.”
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“The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. So you've got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.”
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“I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.”
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“Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.”
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“I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.”
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“Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.”
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“Laughter is such a healing thing, and through laughter, we find commonalities with each other. There's a lot of separation in the world, and by creating more things to laugh at, we can create a common ground for open discussion.”
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“Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.”
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“The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty.”
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“We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.”
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“I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.”
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“Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.”
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“A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.”
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“There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.”
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“I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.”
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“Even in my comedies, I don't take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.”
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“I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.”
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“If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.”
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“I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.”
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“People always mention that they'd love to see me in a comedy again. Maybe it's time - laughter being the best medicine.”
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“I loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.”
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“I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter.”
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“There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.”
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“All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.”
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“Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.”
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“Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.”
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“Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting things done. And this startup of culture is something entrepreneurs struggle to maintain as the business grows. To ensure this environment continues, create a strong foundation and ensure everyone is on board.”
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“Laughter does not please the mighty.”
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“I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.”
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“I'm always awoken with the joyous sound and laughter of my son. That's the best part about being a mom.”
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“The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.”
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“Naming me 'Twinkle' was a foolproof way of making sure that I would get teased throughout my life, have immigration officers at various airports stare at my passport and shake with hysterical laughter, and strangers stalk me with WhatsApp messages like, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, I hope you get hit by a car!'”
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“Life is laughter.”
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“People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive.”
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“I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.”
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“I've always felt that desire. To get a woman to throw back her head in laughter is a hot thing.”
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“That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing?”
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“I stopped doing interviews for a long time because the words were mine, but they were in the wrong order. Context is a very important thing - a lot of the things I say aren't serious, and so to remove the laughter does me no favours.”
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“You can send a lot of instruction through laughter.”
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“If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.”
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“I love to make people laugh, and I believe that laughter and song are the best way to help young children learn.”
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“With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter is key. If they shed a tear or go home thinking about the play, that's a bonus.”
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“I've kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I'm doing.”
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“I remember once they sent me over to read for a show called 'Mork and Mindy.' I heard gales of laughter, then Robin Williams walked out. I had to follow Robin Williams.”
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“I think the way comedy is represented on screen is it's either all fart jokes - and it's just laughter for the sake of laughter - or it's one of those things where it's just kind of very preachy, very heavy-handed.”
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“It's really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter.”
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“My mantra is - eat little less than your hunger level, consume double the quantity of water, your workout must be tripled, and dose of laughter must be four times!”
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“I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films… The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.”
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“Here's my story: My mother and I were at Cirque du Soleil, looking down on Shiner doing his act. She was always tolerant of my being a clown, but I don't remember her rolling with laughter. But with Shiner, she could not sit up straight!”
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“Laughter's good, but it's not love. It's one aspect. One emotion you're eliciting from your audience.”
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“There's a lot of power in laughter.”
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“I'm definitely proud of myself anytime I can make Amanda Peet break out into laughter.”
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“Many of my 20- and 30-something peers struggle with student loan debt and high rent, and more than once, I've erupted in laughter at the idea that I will collect any Social Security in my Betty White years.”
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“A lot of sexism is just very silly… and the best response is laughter and ridicule.”
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“All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.”
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“I say now, if I'm not laughing a whole lot on the first date, you're pretty much not going to get a second one, I can tell you that. It's all about the laughter and a good time for me.”
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“My morning rituals are typical. I wake up yearning for a few extra moments of rest. I express gratitude to a higher power for the breath in my body and the blessings in my life. I shower. I dress. I eat breakfast. I exchange laughter and words with my beloveds, embracing each other as we say our daily goodbyes.”
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“I just love comedy, and I honestly believe that laughter transcends everything. If everyone laughed together, laughed more, it would unite the world in peace.”
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“To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.”
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“When somebody says something stupid to me, I usually alleviate it with laughter and humour. I make light of it to educate people on why it's inappropriate.”
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“My favorite comics are the ones who say funny stuff but also give you the message. They give you the laughter, but there's also the, 'Mmm - I didn't take that into consideration.'”
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“I just hope to tell stories that help change people's minds about loving and accepting others. And one of the best ways we can do that is through laughter.”
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“I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening.”
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“I'm the youngest of six kids, and I grew up with a lot of noise, a lot of music, and a lot of laughter.”
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“The smaller an audience is, the more self-conscious they are. People are always looking at each other to see who is laughing. Because the thing about laughter is that it exposes who you are.”
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“I think it's important to make art for a myriad of reasons. The least of which is that I think laughter is medicinal, and I think there is an escapism aspect - an act of self-care.”
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“Even though standup seems like one-way conversation, if you're doing it right, it's actually a two-way discussion between the comic and the audience… the audience just happens to be communicating through laughter.”
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“Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.”
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“I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.”
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“If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone's compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.”
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“I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.”
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“I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything.”
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“When you're 14 and you're with your friends, you laugh about really stupid stuff, but as you get older, the laughter inside you dies. When you're older, you need a bit of help.”
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“It's extraordinary to hear waves of laughter after you've been playing something, night after night, to nothing. That's why I'm still hooked on acting: the terror of the possibility of things going wrong, the thrill when they go right, and the joy of the company.”
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“'QI' is exactly what the best TV ought to be - you learn something, but you are also crying with laughter.”
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“Laughter is beyond truth - the ultimate happiness.”
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“What I like to think I've done is try to teach all women and my three female daughters, to teach them to rise above stuff, to find things that move you, to bring humor and laughter to everything that you do, and to realize that no other person defines you. Find what's great about yourself, and band together as women.”
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“There was always laughter in our house. And I have great memories of my dad making an Ulster fry on a Saturday morning. They were legendary even though he couldn't really cook.”
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“Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm and, I think, should elicit an emotion of happiness or of celebration or of sadness or of sorrow or of love or laughter, whatever.”
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“If I grow older like my mum, I'll be happy. She's never touched her face. She has laughter lines but looks lovely.”
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“Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop of laughter - and an icing of trust.”
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“If I can bring a little light, love, and laughter into my environment, it's a win.”
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“Christmas is not a time for laughter. Christmas is a time for pain.”
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“I've got a lot of laughter lines. You don't get laughter lines on your face without having a lot of fun in your life.”
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“Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.”
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“Often people write stories about people who are suffering, and they're miserable all the time. That's not the case. You go to the food bank or wherever and there's laughter, there's comedy, there's stupidity, there's silliness and warmth. And that's the reality of people's lives. If you cut out that sense of humor and warmth, you miss the point.”
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“Do you know what I think of when I remember him? I think: He was such a kid. He taught me how to swim when I was 4 and how to ride a bike. So when I think of Martin Luther King, I think of laughter. I think of the play and the fun.”
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“I think when people hear my book on Audible, they'll hear the inflection in my voice, the tone, and understand me a little bit better and understand my family a little bit better in the ways that I tell the stories. Some are told with laughter, and some are told with sadness.”
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“When people say, 'I don't like laughter on a TV show', I think, 'How do you cope when you're watching a stand-up gig live?' - it's the same thing!”
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“So actually, for me, 'Doctor Who,' you want it to be the show with all the emotions and all the feels, really, and that you've had a good emotional workout, from laughter to tears to fear and excitement.”
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“When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of it through laughter is a pretty powerful tool.”
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“I just looked preposterous. It would be 'King Lear' and I'd walk on with Cordelia's dead body in my arms and the audience would hoot with laughter. The only time they didn't laugh was when I was doing comedy.”
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“Laughter cures everything.”
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“Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.”
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“Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier.”
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“I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.”
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“I know that money is precious - but, at least to me, laughter and expression are even more so.”
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“I like Robo Shankar - he evokes laughter, he has a unique body language and style. I loved all scenes of his in 'Maari.'”
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“I was called for 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge,' but I turned it down because I wasn't sure of its quality.”
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“Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We'd sit around the dinner table and try to one-up each other. It sometimes ended in tears, but usually in laughter.”
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“It's what makes me the happiest - to make beautiful things for the people I love, and to fill my home with love and laughter and music and food and people.”
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“My job is very simply that of a photojournalist. I want to stop people's eye on the page, I want to move the viewer to laughter, to sadness, sometimes to wince - not to impress other photographers.”
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“I believe that when people try to live their life at the fullest, there's a certain laughter that comes out of it. The more they try to live their life seriously, the funnier it is.”
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“If I were to distill my household, it was a passion for social justice and a love for food and laughter.”
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“I don't tend to read much comedy, but there's a fake advertisement section at the end of Derren Brown's book 'Pure Effect' which always makes me cry with laughter every time I come across it.”
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“Essentially, Christmas has always been about spending time with family. We had one big lunch filled with banter, warmth, laughter and great food. Doing up the tree with my mom was another fun exercise.”
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“I like hanging with my family and helping them on their way however I can. There's a new tragicomedy every half-hour, there is laughter, there are tears, and it's all real. They are endlessly entertaining, they have given me so much, they've given me a chance to 'see' things again.”
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“The history of black people in America, it's so painful. But throughout all that history there has still been the ability of our community to find love and laughter and joy even in these very painful circumstances. That's why I think in particular black love is so powerful, because it's constantly under attack.”
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“My dad makes me hiss with laughter.”
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“The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you hear people laughing and you're not, you start to question if maybe there's something wrong with you for not getting it.”
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“Across Central Virginia, the traditions of Thanksgiving bring us closer together with those we love. We gather with family and close friends, we share memories and laughter, and we give thanks for the profound blessing of living in the United States.”
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“I think I just laugh nonstop. I think my laughter naturally melts in when I want to recharge.”
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“The video for 'Last Christmas' was shot in the early winter of 1984 in the Swiss ski resort of Saas Fee. It was a glorious affair, and the two days we spent shooting it were a riot of laughter and fun, which I think comes across.”
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“Laughter is like surfing; it's like a wave coming out of the auditorium - before it has died off, you must come in with the next line. But if you come in too soon, no one will hear what you say.”
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“I don't have a particular type of woman. But I like to have fun and, while looks will go some way, laughter is extremely important.”
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“Comedy is basically action but you get the reaction on laughter.”
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“I always emphasize that in the long run one can't satisfactorily say no to war, violence and injustice unless one is simultaneously saying yes to life and love and laughter.”
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“I'm grateful for laughter of any kind, but it can be off-putting if one person is laughing at a different time or in a different way from the rest of the audience.”
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“There's something really special, and addictive, about making that connection with an audience - knowing that they may never have seen you before, and may never see you again, but that for those moments you've been able to unite them all in laughter, and provide the escape that lies in that involuntary response.”
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“Comedy is a difficult thing for a critic, as, unlike all other art-forms, it has an inbuilt success-o-meter: laughter. Therefore, there's no real need for critics.”
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“I don't believe in God, so I'd say that laughter is one of the only true weapons for fighting against real darkness, grief and loss.”
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“What I would love to do is more telly comedy. I did a tiny bit in 'Toast of London' and was in one episode of Catherine Tate's 'Nan.' I was crying with laughter.”
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“Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.”
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“Laughter is what connects pretty much all pain.”
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“Laughter is this amazing and healing thing.”
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“If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter - the best place to start is with your own childhood.”
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“As I began to perform - songs, poems, sketches or conjuring tricks - I began to learn what children run with and what they dont. I discovered that, quite often, an element of surprise or absurdity might be the key to unlocking laughter.”
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“Well yes I think laughter is joyous, laughter is crucial. I think thats why I love comedy and thats why Im in comedy in the first place.”
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“The tone of 'On My Block' has you going from bent-over laughter to shedding thug tears from scene to scene, and even I have to admit that 'Toxic Turner' may be the funniest campaign ad of the 2020 election cycle.”
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“It's a bit like laughter in church, something has to be forbidden to make you really laugh, to make you really belly laugh. It's when you shouldn't be laughing. And so, therefore, all the things that are being cancelled out are, I'm afraid, the things that have always made people laugh.”
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“Some of my most vivid childhood memories involve cards: loud, energetic, often brutally competitive games of racing demon, played at high speed and in a fug of shouting and laughter; endless rummy tournaments; learning newfangled varieties of poker. It didn't matter what the game was, if it involved a pack of cards, we played it.”
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“Life is too short to not have fun. At Kendra Scott our stores and offices are always filled with joy and laughter. We work hard but we play even harder!”
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“I used to think that laughter would solve everything and I would never be lonely.”
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“You can look at 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' as a cute road journey with a lot of fun and laughter but if you get into the layers beneath you will find it more enjoyable. My daughter loves the 'Chicken Song;' it's the most political song of the film.”
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“The secret to a happy marriage is friendship and laughter. There's no alternative.”
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“As a woman, I've pushed through life with the ability to nurture, with the strength to withstand challenge, with the ease to embrace laughter, with the heart to love and love again, with the desire to thrive, enjoying, and loving all of me.”
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“Laughter and food are something that can always bring us together.”
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“For me, laughter is healing.”