I'm not trying to teach anybody anything, I'm not trying…

My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere then at…

— Ben Howard

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what…

— Ben Bradlee

Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other…

— Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

— Bertrand Russell

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable…

— George Packer

There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.

— Carmen Yulin Cruz

I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing…

— Michael Caine

I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.

— Hal Needham

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

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

“Maybe, just maybe, when this is all over and we meet on the other side we’ll just compare notes on how we did and…

— Art Hochberg

I think it was somewhere around age 3 when I fell down the stairs at my house, and I got up and did a…

— Brent Spiner

A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.

— Josh Gondelman

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

— Quincy Jones

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and…

— Michael Patrick King

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

— Desi Arnaz