Top 1200 You Make Me Laugh Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

I love anyone who surprises me and makes me laugh.

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful. But that's just momentary. And then it's about how to make it work. Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

I think working for the audience, for me, is the most fun. It's really a chance for something to work towards. It's where everything kind of comes together, and you have to make it work. You have all these people who are sitting there, wanting to have a good time and wanting to laugh. You really have no choice but to pull it out.

I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd - it's a kind of a 'make me laugh' attitude. But when you come out as an improvisor, they realize that they're suggesting everything you do. So they're already invested in the scene, and they actually want it to work.

The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.

I just try to be as nice as possible and make fun of myself and laugh at the jokes.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.

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I want to make women laugh. I want to make them feel beautiful in their own skin. I want to empower them to use their voice and not apologize.

The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

I feel so lucky to have the career that I have. I can travel the world and be a goofball and make people laugh.

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding.

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

I like that my dad makes it clear he's there to make you laugh, not to showcase his emotional range.

I'm the guy who will persist in his path. I'm the guy who will make you laugh. I'm the guy who strives to be open. I'm the guy who's been heartbroken. I'm the guy who has been on his own, and I'm the guy who's felt alone. I'm the guy who holds your hand, and I'm the guy who will stand up and be a man. I'm the guy who tries to make things better. I'm the guy who's the whitest half Cuban ever. I'm the guy who's lost more than he's won. I'm the guy who's turn, but never spun. I'm the guy you couldn't see. I'm that guy, and that guy is me.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.

We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.

I have a luck cat in my arms, it spins threads of luck. Luck cat, luck cat, make for me three things: make for me a golden ring, to tell me that I am lucky; make for me a mirror to tell me that I am beautiful; make for me a fan to waft away my cumbersome thoughts. Luck cat, luck cat, spin for me some news of my future!

It is tough to make people laugh, but when there is comfort level with co-stars and director it all works well.

For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.

Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be willing to talk to me.

Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.

There's no great secret or plan, I just think I'm funny and I want to make people laugh.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

People think they are not allowed to laugh at art, but they are. Damien Hirst laughs at himself. I know Jake and Dinos Chapman and they laugh all the time at what they do and at other artists.

If something makes me laugh really hard, it sticks in my head or my heart or somewhere inside me.

The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

At school I was very shy and coincidentally inherited the title 'little miss worry guts,' and that was just among the staff. I learned early on that I could make people laugh, and as my small neat body betrayed me by growing to dizzying heights, I used it as a tool that translated into complete slap-stick comedy.

Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.

If something makes me cry, I cry out loud. If something makes me laugh, I laugh out loud, because that's what it's made to do.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

I've never had a Plan B. I've just always wanted to make people laugh, that's it.

It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap.

My daughter Fathima is a bigger comedian than me. She makes me laugh all the time.

I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate.