Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.
With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.
It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.
I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.
I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.
I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.
I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.
I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.
I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing.
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
