We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Try not to pay attention to those who would laugh at your mistakes and failures; they never mattered in your life, and will never do.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.
Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.
If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself".
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.
You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.
'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.
Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Great relationships are like vitamins to the soul. They help us connect, laugh, dream and grow. Make time for friendship and fellowship.
Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.
