Quotes and Sayings About Laughing
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-- A. Whitney BrownSource : "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
-- Aaliyah -
She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.
-- Abbi Glines -
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This was why I loved my Grana. Being with her always made me laugh. She accepted life for what it was. She didn’t pretend or put on airs. She was just Grana.
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The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.
-- Abe Burrows -
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
-- Abel FerraraSource : "Dwight Howard: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2011.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
-- Abraham Maslow -
My new shorty got a gymnastic back, '87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad; She had the club foot, with that little arm, I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.
-- Action Bronson -
We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
-- Adam ArkinSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.
-- Adam Baldwin -
I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
-- Adam Carolla -
At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.
-- Adam PallySource : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.
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YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.
-- Adam RexSource : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.178, A&C Black
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I'm sure everyone's got their back story. I don't come from a place of where I was tortured and needed to let something out. I came from a very happy home. I was a little out of control at times. But my family... we all liked to be funny, we all liked to make each other laugh.
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When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.
-- Adam SandlerSource : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.
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I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.
-- Adam Savage -
I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
-- Ade EdmondsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
-- Ade EdmondsonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "Adolf Eichmann, the Evil Architect of the Holocaust in WW2" by Nikola Budanovic, www.warhistoryonline.com. August 22, 2016.
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We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced ... we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value of a currency is regulated by the gold and securities lying in the vaults of a state bank.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.
-- Adrian Grenier -
You can laugh your way into hell but not out.
-- Adrian Rogers