“Sometimes, you have to let emotions leave your heart. Laugh it all off, or it’ll consume you.” — Claudia Y. Burgoa Copy Share Image
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands. — Rik Mayall Copy Share Image
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. — Herbert Gardner Copy Share Image
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
It's amazing where a joke might come from. I find a lot of humour just by metaphorically turning things upside down or… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“Christopher flushed, gaped, and then laughed. I gave him credit for that. Lots of guys can laugh at someone else. Chistopher could… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter. — Del Close Copy Share Image
I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip… — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
I decided I'd try my hand as a stand-up comedian, as I loved making people laugh, and appeared at the Latitude Festival,… — Daniel Rigby Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic.… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to… — Katie Featherston Copy Share Image
But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image