Antics Quote by Nikolai Gogol

The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on…

— Jacques Lecoq

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching…

— Nikolai Gogol

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

— Tom Robbins

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

— Steve Coogan

Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the…

— Jim Carrey

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and…

— Marc Maron

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your…

— Hiam Abbass

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one…

— Anthony Burgess

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

— Mel Gussow

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds,…

— Sean O'Casey

It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

— Jackie Gleason

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