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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother and I used to laugh and say, 'Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like making people laugh.
- Nov 07, 2020
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020