Dust Quote by Graham Linehan

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience…

— James Thurber

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

— Vince Vaughn

Humour is completed by an audience.

— Matthew Warchus

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time…

— Twyla Tharp

Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.

— Kevin Feige

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…

— Gyles Brandreth

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I…

— Jean Cocteau

I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier…

— Leo McCarey

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.

— Ted Alexandro

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind…

— Emmett Kelly

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness…

— Agnes Repplier