Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.
Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.
And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.
I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
I laugh with them because it is one of the worst things to be in a room full of people and not laughting when everybody else is.
You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
I'll always come back to comedy. Doing drama can feel satisfying, but day to day, it's just not as fun as laughing.
Switch on your smile, laugh without reason. You control happiness, you change the world.
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.
I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.
You cant laugh at a joke agian and agian, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over agian?
The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to laugh at the consequences.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Laughter is the human super-highway to the heart. It bypasses, any yellow or red lights and proceeds straight to green. Go get to laughing!!!
I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background.
