Laugh Quotes

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

~ Hugh Grant

There is no attitude required. The hat brings the attitude. And when people try on a hat they like, it is a bit of fun. It makes them laugh. You don't laugh when you put on a pair of shoes, but you do with a hat.

~ Philip Treacy

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

~ Miranda Richardson

I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd - it's a kind of a 'make me laugh' attitude. But when you come out as an improvisor, they realize that they're suggesting everything you do. So they're already invested in the scene, and they actually want it to work.

~ Ryan Stiles

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

~ Doris Roberts

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

~ John Howard

I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.

~ Maysoon Zayid

Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

~ Paula Radcliffe

Honestly, I like someone who is really grounded, super sweet, honest. I need them to have a sense of humor. I need them to laugh at what's funny, I need them to get jokes and be funny and be witty and sarcastic.

~ Casper Smart

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

~ Ellen Degeneres

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

~ Bob Hope

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

~ Jon Favreau

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

~ Arlo Guthrie

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'

~ Helen Mirren

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

~ Katie Aselton

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

~ Eminem

A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.

~ Ron White

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.

~ Peter Dinklage

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

~ Jason Mraz

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

~ Chevy Chase

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'

~ Max Von Sydow

You have to laugh at yourself. I do a lot of humor about all ethnicities that are at the show - Latinos, Asians, Indians... What I say is, 'We're laughing together. I'm laughing with you, not at you.' Never say, 'Oh, I'm better than you.'

~ Maz Jobrani

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

~ Paul Feig

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

~ Marlee Matlin

I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first; otherwise, they will shoot you.

~ Sayed Kashua

Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.

~ Garry Shandling

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

~ Victor Lavalle

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

I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.

~ Rob Riggle

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

~ Tom Lehrer

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

~ Selma Blair

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

~ Erin Morgenstern

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

~ Allen Klein

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

~ Rose Mciver

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

~ Robert Orben

I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

~ Mac Demarco

My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry.

~ Honeysuckle Weeks