Laughter Quotes

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Does anyone remember laughter?

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.