Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.
In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.
To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.
I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't know that there are that many comedies that try for that.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
I'm here to make people laugh and help them forget their troubles, too! So I just try to bring heart and bring jokes!
When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.
Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.
My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.
A good artist should laugh often!
Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.
I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
