Top 1200 You Make Me Laugh Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.

I read these articles where people are calling me a fashion icon, which kind of makes me laugh, but if that's the way they perceive it that's all good.

The only difference between a comedian and someone else? We need to make people laugh more.

You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd and kick it with 'em, stage dive, mosh. I make 'em laugh. I go out there and turn up, have fun. There's no set list; I don't have rehearsals.

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

I love making people laugh and by the way I still do that with the charitable efforts on my part because I believe that people need to laugh.

Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh. But he can turn on you. And get nasty and personal and vicious.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.

If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself and laugh at your mechanism that is out of gear.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

My goal is really to just make people laugh with integrity, like, with something that I still find funny.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." "It sounds intriguing," admitted Eragon. "Always the scholar, aren't you?" asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. "Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Robert Lindsay is a legend, he can do anything. Sing, dance, make you laugh. I was in awe of him on 'Hornblower.'

Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.

Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.

I love pulling faces at little kids on the London tube to see if I can make them laugh, and I usually do.

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

We used Chaplin's formula in all my pictures. Make 'em laugh for five and a half reels, and then make 'em cry in the last half reel. But give 'em a chance to dry their eyes before the lights come up.

If you love Alex now, then love him forever. Make him laugh again, and cherish the time you spend together. Take walks and ride your bikes, curl up on the couch and watch movies beneath a blanket. Make him breakfast, but don't spoil him. Let him make breakfast for you as well, so he can show you he thinks you're special. Kiss him and make love to him and consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.

A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure, figure out a way to make them fun; get creative and entertain yourself. If the stuff of life for you right now is not dull and boring but instead painful and overwhelming, find something in the midst of the pain that makes you smile or giggle anyway. There's always something somewhere. . . even if you have to just pretend to laugh until you really do!

Money doesn't make me tick. This definition of success doesn't make me tick. Managing some of the biggest stars in the world doesn't make me tick. Making my family proud makes me tick.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

When I want to make someone laugh in real life (as opposed to when I'm on stage where I tell one-liners), I tend to do prop comedy. For example, if I'm at the supermarket with my husband, I might put 16 bags of marshmallows in our cart when he's not looking, or if I'm trying to make a kid smile, I'll put my glasses on crooked.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the best people out there, who bring the best out of me.

I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective. People like to laugh, and they especially like to laugh during difficult circumstances.

One doesn't have to resort to cheap imitations of characters or people around you to make others laugh. At least, that is what I've always believed in.

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.

The camera is no one's friend - you have to leave your problems at home and make people laugh. That's never an easy thing to do.

My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers

I'm definitely a veteran. No question. And it always makes me laugh when the younger guys tell me they remember where they were when I contested a certain match. It makes me feel old, but it's cool to hear that.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

I always enjoyed things that made me laugh. My dad introduced me to 'Fawlty Towers' and I loved 'Crackerjack' - that was my childhood encapsulated.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.