Laughter Quotes

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?

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.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

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.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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.

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.

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!

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

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.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

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.

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.

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.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

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.

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.

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.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

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.

Laughter made you live better and longer.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

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.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

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.

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.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

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.

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.

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

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

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.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

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.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

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.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

Laughter is an instant vacation.