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Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
James Howe
Video Games
Hope
World
Gift
Humor
Laughter
Threats
Give
More
Reminder
Most
Terribly
Reader
Than
Precious
Precious Gift
Place
Video
Games
Serious
Nuclear
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber
Success
Smile
Home
Quality
Comedy
Laughter
Important
Appreciative
Unless
Chuckle
Mirth
Takes
Feels
Audience
Understood
Cannot
Warmth
Created
Among
If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.
Jason Bateman
You
Laughter
Rare
Nowadays
Too
Back
Laugh
Gut
Take
Another
Go
Just
Bust
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
Jay Roach
Struggle
Joy
Laughter
Bit
Find
Composure
Scene
Take
Part
Maintain
Underneath
Because
Becomes
Surface
Still
Controlled
Going
Repressed
After
Interesting
Little
Little Bit
Really
Next
Actually
What I like to think I've done is try to teach all women and my three female daughters, to teach them to rise above stuff, to find things that move you, to bring humor and laughter to everything that you do, and to realize that no other person defines you. Find what's great about yourself, and band together as women.
Joely Fisher
Great
You
Together
Women
Yourself
Try
Humor
Laughter
Three
Rise Above
Band
Think
Other
Everything
Defines
Find
All Women
About
Rise
Above
Daughters
Stuff
Like
Female
Person
Done
Move
Them
Realize
Teach
Things
Bring
There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
John Burroughs
Pride
Laughter
Seems
Something
Mirth
Self-Conscious
Implies
Sort
Very
Mockery
Squirrels
Human
Apparent
I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
John Davidson
People
Song
Simple
Tears
Laughter
Live
Every
Otherwise
Approach
Tell
Must
Inspiration
Performance
Know
Sing
Make
Audience
Surprised
Move
Story
Should
Why
If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.
John Dickerson
Future
Time
Day
You
Will
Laughter
Older
Machine
Find
Record
Give
Self
Had
Surely
Clip
Middle
Children
Want
Might
Toddlers
Your
Transport
Away
Present
This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.
John Goodman
Love
Time
You
Hate
Fear
Laughter
Power
Every
Think
Every Time
Corny
Out
Would
About
Beat
True
Know
Sound
Movie
Happens
'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.
Johnathon Schaech
Character
Tears
Laughter
Pure
Intricate
Through
Jon
Recurring
Ray
Instrument
Got
Go
Greats
Fiction
Storyline
Working
Aspects
Fun
Whole
Thing
Played
Bring
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
Joseph Addison
Man
Heart
Laughter
Believe
Other
Our
Distinguished
Mirth
Faculty
He
May
Capable
Naturally
Creatures
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
Joseph Heller
Laughter
Give
Take
Most
Dentist
Situations
Zeal
One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.
Joyce DeWitt
You
Laughter
Universe
Later
Says
Something
True
Know
Make
Make Up
Sound
Still
Hear
Years
Up
Center
Fantasy
Produces
Teachers
I remember once they sent me over to read for a show called 'Mork and Mindy.' I heard gales of laughter, then Robin Williams walked out. I had to follow Robin Williams.
Judge Reinhold
Me
Remember
Laughter
Once
Williams
Out
Follow
Had
Over
Read
Robin
Robin Williams
Heard
Walked
Sent
Then
Show
One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.'
Kapil Sharma
Work
Love
Hard Work
Good
Great
You
Fight
Comedy
Challenge
Laughter
Every
Months
Circus
TV
Ratings
Week
Involves
Content
Always
Got
Audiences
Lot
Six
Produce
Hard
Film
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell
Genius
Laughter
Men
Young
Intervened
Out
Mercifully
Like
Young Men
Set
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.
Lea Thompson
People
Laughter
Abyss
Definitely
Out
Toward
Themselves
Use
Who
Gravitate
Pull
I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.
Leah Remini
Jealous
People
Remember
Laughter
Made
Feeling
Big
Carol
Carol Burnett
Kid
Laugh
Someone
Like
Make
Always
Got
Big Fan
Heard
Child
Trying
Fan
Burnett
Little
Them
Watched
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
Linda Ellerbee
Time
Good
Day
You
Game
Reality
World
Darkness
Will
Laughter
Face
Good Time
Laugh
Finest
Until
Felt
Always
Sound
Account
Any
Last
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee
Courage
Sometimes
Laughter
Think
Sun
Laugh
More
Never
Look
Tall
Than
Brave
May
Form
Stand
Humans
I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.
Loni Love
Needs
People
World
Problems
Laughter
Country
Become
Entertainer
About
Something
Because
Always
Doing
Forget
Wanted
Happening
While
Little
Help
Little While
Help People
Keep
Why
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball
Happy
Value
Laughter
Ways
Brought
Because
Been
Many
Shown
Lives
When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.
Maria Semple
Good
Me
You
Reality
Book
Laughter
Good Laugh
Books
Laugh
Delightful
Roar
Reach
Another
Makes
Always
Surprise
Submerge
Expect
Move
Novel
Deeply
Need
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.
Mark Haddon
Life
You
Book
Too Much
Laughter
Think
Too
Laugh
Horror
Perform
Reaction
Make
Readers
Genuine
Tradition
Whereas
Which
Much
Really
Serious
Functions
Britain
You know, there's endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.
Marlo Thomas
You
Laughter
Running
Park
Know
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
Martha Beck
Sex
Laughter
Adolescence
Childhood
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