Top 100 Making People Laugh Quotes
#1. Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.
John Cleese
#2. Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
Dick Gregory
#3. Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin
#4. If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.
Dwayne Johnson
#5. In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go back to an audience every now and again to see if you're still getting your craft right, making people laugh at the moments you think they should and that sort of thing.
Mathew Baynton
#6. There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.
John Gimlette
#7. As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.
Melissa McCarthy
#8. I love entertaining and making people laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.
Miranda Cosgrove
#9. I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
David Alan Basche
#10. I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen
#11. You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.
Thomas Gibson
#13. My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.
Kristen Johnston
#14. I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.
Paul Reubens
#15. Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#16. I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.
Lauren Lapkus
#17. I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.
Larry The Cable Guy
#18. I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
Xosha Roquemore
#19. When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.
Matthew Perry
#20. Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.
Reggie Watts
#21. I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.
Brian Littrell
#22. To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.
Josh Peck
#23. I love comedy. There's just something so great about making people laugh. And for me, too, whenever I laugh, it just makes me feel so much better just watching a great comedy.
Stefanie Scott
#24. Sometimes making people laugh or even making them scared can be accomplished by a good opening sequence.
Kyle Cooper
#27. I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
Albert Brooks
#28. I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.
Lisa Kudrow
#30. I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.
Dave Barry
#31. TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.
Jillian Bach
#32. I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Jay Roach
#33. Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.
Bernie Mac
#34. My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created ... what power that was!
Lynn Johnston
#35. I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.
Busy Philipps
#36. That's not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I'm an actor. The fuel for me is the laugh. Maybe later I'll want to show people the darker side ... But right now, I'm having too much fan making people laugh. And it really makes me feel good.
Jerry Trainor
#37. I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.
Kevin Hart
#38. I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.
Bernie Mac
#39. I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.
William Shatner
#40. Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.
Chris Tucker
#41. We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.
Nick Harkaway
#42. Well, I started years ago with Flashdance and we also did Coyote Ugly, so I have put my toe in the water before with romantic comedies. I love making them and I love making people laugh. That's a trademark that I don't think any producer would turn down.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#43. You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god ... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.
Eric Stoltz
#44. What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
Verne Troyer
#45. I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I want to play. I want to keep making people laugh, and I want to explore dramatic roles as well.
Dilshad Vadsaria
#46. What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all artists are fighting. I want to hold the mirror up to society and help them see themselves more clearly. I also love just making people laugh.
Jinkx Monsoon
#47. I really love making people laugh.
Bob Saget
#48. I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.
Elisha Cuthbert
#49. I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.
Kevin Hart
#50. I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.
Zach Galifianakis
#51. There's something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.
Reese Witherspoon
#53. 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.
Chris Kattan
#54. My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.
Carrot Top
#55. I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.
Amy Weber
#56. No matter how big a comedian gets, they're ultimately all just a bunch of nerds with their weird insecurities. You realize these are just the people in high school who were making people laugh.
Reggie Watts
#57. To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.
Judy Gold
#58. From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.
Arj Barker
#59. But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
Carol Burnett
#60. I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.
Anthony Jeselnik
#61. I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
Rainn Wilson
#62. Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.
Lenny Bruce
#63. I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.
Andrew Buchan
#64. Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
Gilda Radner
#65. Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.
Elliott Erwitt
#66. The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
Bill Burr
#67. I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.
Kim Cattrall
#68. So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical activity that gets me out of my head and into my body. I'm constantly inspired by my surroundings and people I see that are "killing it."
Xosha Roquemore
#69. 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.
Goldie Hawn
#70. I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.
Jillian Bell
#71. I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.
Ron White
#72. At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.
Adam Pally
#73. I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.
Rob Delaney
#74. I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.
Jeremy Sumpter
#75. I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works.
David Alan Basche
#76. I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
Michael Caine
#77. I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!
Norman Wisdom
#78. Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.
Eric Ladin
#79. Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.
Stephen Graham Jones
#80. [As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.
Ricky Gervais
#81. Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
Amanda Seyfried
#82. I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.
Jennifer Aniston
#83. It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.
Paul Merton
#84. Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great, but I started to think that people will soon get bored from it. I have said to myself: "If you are going to go on being a superstar, you have to sing!"
Verka Serduchka
#85. All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.
Drew Fuller
#86. I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.
Jim Gaffigan
#87. I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.
Steve Coogan
#89. A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.
Ben Schwartz
#90. Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.
Jane Lynch
#91. Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.
Steve Carell
#92. There are some people
who would rather be right than happy,
as though making a point
was more fun than having a good time
These are the people
who will risk their lives to get the last laugh
even when it isn't funny
Merrit Malloy
#93. I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.
Miranda Cosgrove
#94. The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'
Stephen Furst
#95. I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.
Sharon Horgan
#96. I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.
Mark Roberts
#97. Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.
Liz Phair
#98. She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.
E. Lockhart
#99. I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
Paul Lynde
#100. I'm tired of explaining to Hollywood that people would laugh at me, because I go around America making them laugh every week. Nobody would be offended, nobody would think my leather pants are too controversial.
Jen Kirkman
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