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"I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes. I see when people go off their material and it's actually happening in front of you and that kind of stuff excites me."
"Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit."
"I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."
"I encourage you to deliberately look for something to smile or laugh about every day, and be sure to share a smile or a laugh with someone else and brighten their day too!"
"Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I."
"She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh."
"Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more."
"One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too."
"Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh."
"In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health."
"The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras."
"And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh."
"I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me."
"I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner."
"Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke."
"You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations."
"You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble."
"The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh."
"It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud."
"Eat well, sleep and laugh. When you laugh, the lines go up instead of down."
