I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.
I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done.
All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.
Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
I haven't shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!
If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.
I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something.
I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
I learned from Roger Rabbit that if you make people laugh, they'll do anything for you - which is almost true.
With Racer X, whenever we have time, we try to put a record together. And that's always fun because the guys in the band are great friends and I don't think I ever laugh as hard as I do when I'm with the Racer X guys.
I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who doesn't know they're looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously - you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.
In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'
My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.
