I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get.
When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.
The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot. My clown became a romantic and stylized figure. I wanted to be an abstract and concrete figure, a symbol of humanity.
You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
If you want to laugh, see a comedy. If you want to cry, see a drama, and if you want suspense, see a thriller.
Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.
I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
You can't manufacture team spirit; it doesn't come from having a good night out and a laugh.
I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.
I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?
There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.
