- Carol
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laugh Quotes
Quotes about making people laugh, and why it matters.
Several quotes here come from comedians talking shop - inventing answers for interviewers, building prop comedy on the fly, choosing stand-up over acting because making a room laugh felt more honest. Funny is the natural next stop.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your playing drama, and you're in the moment, and you can nail the emotion that is called for, it just feels like a smooth thing. It's so great. There is nothing like getting a laugh, though.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I meet someone new, I always extend a hand and say, 'Hi I'm Lana Condor... Condor like the ugly endangered bird.' I like to see how people react to that and if they laugh and, indeed, know what a condor is... chances are we're going to get along just fine!
- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's very important, that a friend makes you laugh, and you're just giddy around them all the time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020