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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
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like anyone in the business, I want people to know that I am normal and I'm kind of weird and I like to laugh with my friends.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was working with Barry Sonnenfeld, I'd watch him set up a shot and talk to him about what he was seeing and what it was to shoot comedy. He told me that a lot of times with comedy, it's not just about getting the joke, but getting a reaction to the joke. That's the laugh - it's somebody's else's reaction to the joke.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I laugh a lot and count my blessings.
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- Nov 07, 2020