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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
Before you have a baby, friends tell you 'sleep now,' and you laugh because you don't think that all those stories could be true. But they are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's harder to laugh than to cry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make everybody laugh.
- Make Me Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.
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- Nov 07, 2020