Laughing Quotes · Page 113

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends…

— Sutton Foster

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy…

— Mike Birbiglia

Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's…

— Jodi Picoult

I asked a high school girl about unreciprocated oral sex and said, "What if guys were asking you to get them a…

— Peggy Orenstein

Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

— Jamie Sams

Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.

— Nicky Gumbel

You can get through everything and cast a laugh and sing/you can do anything that you want to.

— Peter Tosh

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

— Harry Shearer

[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good:…

— Kate DiCamillo

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must…

— Marvin Gaye

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to…

— Josh Gad

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at…

— Taylor Swift

The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.

— Woody Allen

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

— Chris Bauer

I think it's one of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment,…

— Gerard Butler

For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back,…

— Ringo Starr

Laughing has always seemed to me to be more Jewish than praying.

— Sherwin Wine

Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll cry. Life never tells us, the when's or why's. When you've got friends, to wish you well.…

— Whitney Houston

Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world…

— N.D. Wilson

Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and…

— Milan Kundera

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe…

— Dean Koontz

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm…

— Walt Disney

I'm sure everyone's got their back story. I don't come from a place of where I was tortured and needed to let…

— Adam Sandler

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

— Carol Burnett

I made some jokes about weed, got some laughs, made some more jokes, got some more laughs; next thing you know, I'm…

— Doug Benson

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

— Barbara Marciniak

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh…

— Anne Hathaway

So I like switching it up. I like that people are laughing but they don't even know if they should be laughing.…

— Richard Shepard

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.

— Steven Wright

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things…

— Steve Martin

The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise…

— Jack Kornfield

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I…

— Marilyn Monroe

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and…

— Martha Beck

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same…

— MC Lyte

No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?

— Ronaldinho

Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you…

— Cathleen Schine