Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh.
I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
It was hard doing scenes with Bobby Cannavale because I would break up laughing because he's so funny.
If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.
The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'
'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.
I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.
I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.
I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.
