Against Quote by Terence Young

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

— Bill Burr

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself…

— Sammy Davis, Jr

We can change the world one laugh at a time.

— Liza Donnelly

The world is laughing at us. They're laughing at the stupidity of our President [Barack Obama]. Remember he drew the line in the sand…

— Donald Trump

Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

— Jamie Sams

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

— Richard Pryor

I think our biggest goal is to laugh.

— Gerry Dee

I never wanted people to laugh at me. I never wanted the funny lines. I wanted the straight lines.

— Demond Wilson

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other…

— James Thurber

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

— Aristotle

Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Laugh Line' was sort of the way I am at interviews. I could think of nothing.

— Elaine May