Laughter Quotes

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

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.

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

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

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

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Laughter is God's blessing.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.