Top 100 Quotes About Laughs
#1. Sometimes the nastiest shit happens behind the prettiest doors, while everyone laughs and smiles and pretends everything's okay. Here's the thing about my world. We're fucked up. We own it. We take care of business and move on.
Joanna Wylde
#2. Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.
Mindy Kaling
#3. I'm becoming the Fuhrer - the Fuhrer of Laughs!
Mark Corrigan
#4. So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, "Huh, that sounds fascinating. It's wonderful!" [laughs] And I told my father and he literally said, "I don't care if you want to be an elephant trainer if it makes you happy."
Gena Rowlands
#5. I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#6. Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
John Dryden
#7. Christianity has a distinct, 'No, you can't sit with us,' vibe. When Amy says loving a woman will tarnish her soul, she means it. And when Elise laughs, she's laughing at the people who don't have a seat at their table. I
Will Kostakis
#8. What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx!
J.G. Holland
#9. And now we celebrate, in victory bound,
The feast of feasts:
Friend Zarathustra came, the guest of guests!
Now laughs the world, the ancient curtain's torn,
And light and darkness wedded are as one ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.
Lydia Netzer
#11. It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel
#12. Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.
Glenn Beck
#13. What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!
And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. Well, anybody can be a straight man if he hears well. You just have to wait for laughs. A straight man just repeats the questions and the comedian gets the laughs and you just wait for them and don't let them die completely at the tail end of the laugh.
George Burns
#16. I shake his hand, and feel the jolt of electricity again from him. He laughs and raises his hand to show me the joy-buzzer in his palm.
Andrew Shaffer
#17. Get away from me, you wicked treat devil."
She laughs. "Wicked treat devil? Wow. You can do better than that."
"Evil dessert demon?"
"Still lame."
"Chocolate temptress of salty death."
"Now you're just reaching.
Chelsea Fine
#18. Children laugh 400 times per day ... the average adult laughs 15 times per day. Somewhere along the way we lost 385 laughs a day.
David Archuleta
#19. You wanna have laughs? Do what I do. When I go through a tollbooth, I keep going. I tell the guy, The car behind me is paying for two.
Rodney Dangerfield
#20. Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.
Del Close
#21. I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.
Jeff Dunham
#22. A jovial man can be happy with anyone, but when a sad one laughs, he treasures that one who brings him the sunshine. (Cat)
Kinley MacGregor
#23. Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.
Thom Yorke
#24. It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.
Vince Gilligan
#25. It only took one imperfection. One. Then laughs would turn into screams [ ... ]. People would turn into memories and memories into nightmares.
Mahsa
#26. And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.
Nancy E. Turner
#27. There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
T. S. Eliot
#28. I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It's such a tricky thing; you don't want to make rules about it. There's nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he'd break every rule you set up. But he's funny.
Andy Kindler
#29. James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.
Edward Hirsch
#30. The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Lord Chesterfield
#31. My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.
Stephen Colbert
#32. She said, "What do you think the punishment is for what we are doing?"
"Death, maybe life in prison." He replied.
"Awesome!" She laughs.
RED-Bruce Willis
Clarrissa Lee Moon
#33. Yo QT. r u there? I dart Kika a glance. "What does that mean? He called me a Q-tip?" Kika laughs and sits next to me. "Read it out loud. It will make more sense." "Yo-Q-T ru there. Q ... T ... ?" "Q
Anne Eliot
#34. Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a ton of jokes, but you get huge laughs because there's a moment of relief.
Andy Samberg
#35. The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.
Sarada Devi
#36. Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
Yakov Smirnoff
#37. His eyes widen. Then he laughs. "Elissa isn't my girlfriend. Jesus, that's disgusting. She's my sister." It's my turn to be surprised. "Your sister?" "Yes." Relief has never felt more odious.
Leisa Rayven
#39. A few nights later we had a neighborhood-watch party, which is where everyone on the street gets together in the Crowleys' yard and talks and laughs and pretends that nothing is wrong, and meanwhile all our empty houses are ripe for burglary.
Dan Wells
#40. Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.
Scott Westerfeld
#41. Rebecka laughs through her tears. There is almost too much laughter. It bubbles over because she has cried so much she has created an empty space, ready to be filled with another feeling.
Asa Larsson
#42. Count the things you want more of. Count the laughs, not calories.
Grady Miller
#43. You see the mistakes of one system - the surveillance - and the mistakes of the other - the inequality - but there's nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.
Anna Funder
#44. Dude had serious game." Grip laughs. "No one writes about love and sex and passion like Neruda.
Kennedy Ryan
#45. My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.
Chris Kattan
#46. Oh, the symphonic shriek of a thousand hiding voices, the cry of the need inside, the entity, the silent watcher, the cold quiet thing, the one that laughs, the moondancer. The me that was not me, the thing that mocked and laughed and calling with its hunger.
Jeff Lindsay
#48. A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
Carlos Castaneda
#51. The man who's mad is at a disadvantage. The man who laughs can ride out anything.
W.T. Ballard
#54. Augustine's lips tense into a line. "Oh, for the gods' sakes, Little Jac," he snaps. "We know Lucent wasn't just your riding companion." At her stunned expression, Augustine laughs. "You are good at many things, but you are horrible at keeping your love interests a secret.
Marie Lu
#55. It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
Maria Sharapova
#56. A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.
Stan Laurel
#57. You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#58. They laugh until no one can forget that this is what we leave behind when we go: the laughs.
Fredrik Backman
#59. 'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.
Colin Hanks
#60. I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
Laurence Sterne
#61. I think it's more honest, true to life, to write about serious matters. And also not to do something that's gentle. I like to put, ideally, belly laughs on one side, and really serious moments on the other. So they kind of come up against each other.
Guy Jenkin
#62. I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?
Emma Donoghue
#63. He laughs
but it's a laugh
he has to
think about
first.
David Levithan
#64. The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.
Ravi Zacharias
#65. Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.
Charlie Chaplin
#66. She laughs frequently and wildly and with a sort of precocious, tragic abandon.
Tennessee Williams
#67. Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care.
Susane Colasanti
#68. Heartache doesn't teach you to be resilient. It teaches you to protect your fragility. It teaches you to fear love. And it draws a bright red circle around all the ways you've failed as a person and laughs while you cry.
Leisa Rayven
#69. This seems like some type of romantic mood lighting." I turn to him. "And I can tell you right now that you're not getting sex tonight."
He laughs and puts his hand on my shoulder. "Tonight? So you'd consider it some other night? Okay. That works for me.
Allie Everhart
#70. Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed ...
Isobelle Carmody
#71. Listen," said Harry firmly. "If you don't take it, I'm throwing it down the drain. I don't want it and I don't need it. But I could do with a few laughs. We could all do with a few laughs. I've got a feeling we're going to need them more than usual before long.
J.K. Rowling
#72. No one wants to risk a million dollars on a few laughs. The big, flashy commercials are out. The soft sell is out.
Jerry Della Femina
#73. You know the moment when fate plays a cruel joke on you, rips the rug out from beneath your feet and laughs at you after you've fallen flat on your hind end? This was like that moment.
Casey L. Bond
#74. I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.
Fernando Torres
#76. Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you've come to expect from Jessica Alba.
Chelsea Handler
#77. When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
#78. One fan asked me to sign their sock -laughs- that was crazy. They just took off their shoe and handed me their sock and asked if I'd sign it.
Miranda Cosgrove
#79. So, there is one thing I wanted to ask you..." he smiles and laughs a little "...what gave you the idea to use yourself as a fire alarm to wake you assignment? Because that, my dear, was brilliant.
Trish Marie Dawson
#80. Is that code for sex or are we really having coffee?" Peter laughs and feigns shock, putting his hand over his chest. "My God! Is that why all those women at Starbucks keep trying to have coffee with me?
H.M. Ward
#81. If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any others, and receive no wages.
Charles Caleb Colton
#82. For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.
Ron Moody
#83. And usually I'm not watching the screen. I'm kind of sitting and looking off to the side, spying on people to see what they react to' cause it's - as Joe Ranft used to say, you know, animation is like telling a joke and waiting for three years to see if anyone laughs
Pete Docter
#84. You're hammered, Jack!" Jenna yells back.
The male voice laughs. "Hammered Jack. Jack hammer. I'm a jackhammer."
"You're a jackass," she shouts
Chelsea Fine
#85. Some people dream of becoming doctors or artists or veterinarians or teachers. I dream of the day Shaye laughs without stopping, and when she does, it will be only to take a breath before starting over again.
Amy Matayo
#86. There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
Dorothy Dix
#87. Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?"
"Like what things?"
"Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.
Emma Donoghue
#89. The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.
Charlie Chaplin
#90. Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.
John Cowper Powys
#91. How do I look at her?"
Mason laughs. "Like you're a starving dog and she's wearing a skirt made of meat.
Cheryl McIntyre
#92. More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
Matthew Sweet
#93. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
#94. You're related to her?" I hear Mason say through the door. Then he laughs loudly. He has a great laugh. "Your name is Guy Love?" He barks out a laugh, louder this time. "Ironic, isn't it?
Cheryl McIntyre
#95. Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.
Jason Isaacs
#96. 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
#97. The receptionist laughs. Relax. It just means you're a first-time visitor here at Gray Holdings.
Andrew Shaffer
#98. Jemmy won't get to go to Disneyland - but he'll have that. A family that laughs - and millions of little lights in the trees.
Diana Gabaldon
#99. The world laughs at another man's pain.
Jose Rizal
#100. Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
