"Too big to cry too young to laugh."
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"Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do."
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"When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it."
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"A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years."
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"A man can laugh while he suffers."
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"You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a genuine smile, those are the people who have fought the toughest battles. Because they've decided that they're not going to let anything hold them down, they're showing the world who's boss. One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation."
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"Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight."
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"Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them."
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"There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about."
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"The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth."
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"Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies"
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"I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films."
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"I find it easier to cry than I do to laugh convincingly. It's incredibly hard to pull off a laugh that feels natural take after take after take, that feels real. You can tell a fake laugh the minute you hear it, and that's something I really struggle with more than producing tears."
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"I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess."
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"Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile."
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"Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea."
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"If I'm alone in the car and I fart, I still laugh at it. It's the little things that keep us civilised."
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"Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it."
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"My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening."
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"I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time."
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