244 Laughter Quotes for You to Enjoy

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes. Sherrilyn Kenyon

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People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.' Sid Caesar

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I just love listening to the laughter. Simon Pegg

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I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter. Soleil Moon Frye

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If I can bring a little light, love, and laughter into my environment, it's a win. Stephanie Ruhle

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I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn't know what he was doing; I couldn't see the tricks. Stephen Merchant

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I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get. Stephen Merchant

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Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes. Steve Coogan

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I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. Steve Martin

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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. T. C. Boyle

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The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable. Theodore Zeldin

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. Thomas Carlyle

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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Thomas Carlyle

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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. Thomas Hobbes

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In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing. Tim Crouch

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When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh. Todd Solondz

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To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter. Tom Hodgkinson

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I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. Tom Hooper

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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. Tom Lehrer

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I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another. Tracy Morgan

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Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error. Vir Das

There's a lot of power in laughter. W. Kamau Bell

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