A good film should make you laugh, cry, and think.

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun

I laugh a lot in the ring when I’’m having fun.

My brother and I used to laugh and say, ‘Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.’

This one sits shivering in Fortune’s smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death

I’m a big believer in the fact that life is too short to be serious all the time. So if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me—I’ll laugh at you

I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

I’m not the biggest film star in the world [laughs] at all.

I was an affable little lad. I had a lot of energy. I liked to run around, liked to laugh, I was pretty sweet.

And, when the whim changes, it is most easy and delightfully disconcerting to play with the respectable and cowardly bourgeois fetishes and to laugh and epigram at the flitting god-ghosts and the debaucheries and follies of wisdom.

I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

If I couldn’t laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn’t laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren’t all crazy, we would go insane.

It’s those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.

You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!

I like to do comedy. It’s my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

In France, I’m not going to say the audience will laugh for nothing, but you could compare the response I get to the response Louis CK or Chris Rock would get if they go up in a club in Denver tonight.

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don’t.

If you can make someone laugh, even for a moment, you have made their day a little bit brighter.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

Creator. A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

The definition of wit is a joke that doesn’t make you laugh.

David Wain’s character on ‘Bob’s Burgers’ is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.

I’m never home. I miss birthdays. I miss holidays. I miss anniversaries. I miss special moments. I’m not always there for important times, because I’m out on the road trying to make people laugh. I give up my privacy. I give up the ability to walk somewhere and relax.

For about three years I was performing at one bar in East Los Angeles that was like a mean dive bar. You’re in there performing for drunks or bikers, not the most flattering people. I think it helped build my confidence, because you have to get their attention, then make them laugh.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

It is happiness if you laugh together, If you cry together, it is friendship; but if you are silent together, this is real love.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

This country’s been around for a couple of hundred years, and we think we’re hot shit. We don’t even realize that other countries have thousands of years of history and culture, and they’re proud of it. And when we deal on an international level, you know, with foreign policy and stuff like that, and we try and go in as a big American, strong country and all that stuff, they must laugh up their sleeves at us because we are nothing. We are culturally nothing. We mean nothing. We’re only interested in the bottom line.

I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that’s what I’d be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.

My looks have changed. I have laugh lines – not wrinkles

I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone ‘happy’, no greater flattery than to grant him a ‘vein of melancholy’… This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.

A drop fell on the apple tree, another on the roof; a half a dozen kissed the eaves, and made the gables laugh.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it’s the only thing to make it stop hurting.

One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.

I’ve found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it’s the only thing that’ll make it stop hurting.

Don’t matter which way you go Payback’s gonna come your way

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too.

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

You see, my mule don’t like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you’re laughin’ at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you’re going to, I might convince him that you really didn’t mean it.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I have to laugh when someone calls me an *sshole. I’ve been called way worse.

So I’m not leaving until you laugh.

I have to laugh when someone calls me an a*****e. I’ve been called far worse than that.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you’ll gradually get used to it.

God has blessed me because I think. No, I know that I’ve been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people and to uplift people. That’s a beautiful thing. But the only downfall about it is that I really don’t have anybody to do that for me. But it makes me super strong because I do know that if I’m having a bad day, I can come up here and make Ebro and y’all laugh and smile.

I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre’s hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.

He is not always at ease who laughs.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh, and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.

You will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile, laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you.

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you’re tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

I never get tired of ‘It Was A Good Day’ references or jokes or anything like that. It’s just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

Sometimes when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

If you can’t laugh at yourself, life’s gonna be a long, awkward ride.

Be with someone who can make you laugh, when the whole world tries to make you sad.

There’s one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don’t bother yourself about the others

I do my best to please everybody, far more than they’d ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don’t want to let them see my trouble

I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

I’m not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Comedy, such a lovely lady, she’ll pick you up, you your feeling blue

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

If possible, you should try to make even the dead laugh.

One day, you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don’t laugh. Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.