I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.
I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears... life!
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come.
There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts.
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
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.
Officer: [In the bunker during a bombardment] Berlin is now nothing but warehouses: Here were some houses, and there were some houses. [laughter]
Sherlock Holmes: [Telling a joke to a prisoner] And he said, "May I push in your stool?" [Raucous Laughter]
If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
