Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.
When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?
I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.
Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You're constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way.
We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.
[after watching a damning NBC special report] Jim Garrison: At least my reputation is still fine with people watching "Laugh In".
War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.
Cynthia Rose Purley: You gotta laugh, ain't ya sweetheart? Else you'd cry.
You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.
When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.
People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'
I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.
I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.
You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.
Sally: Well obviously those three girls were just... Brian, Sally: [both laughing] ... the wrong three girls.
Old Mr.: [Sofia begins to laugh after years of silence] My God, the dead has arisen.
Silas: I am the league's director, Silas Ramsbottom. Additional Minions: [giggles] Bottom. [laughs] Silas: Hilarious.
Jean-Dominique Bauby: A poet once said, "Only a fool laughs when nothing's funny"
Theo: [laughing as a LAPD SWAT armored vehicle is hit with a missile] Oh my God, the quarterback is TOAST!
