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“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.”
Marilyn Monroe
“When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
Dr Seuss
“She’s crying now but she’ll laugh again.”
Drake
“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”
Eminem
“People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.”
Christina Aguilera
“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.”
Niels Bohr
“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.”
Jim Carrey
“My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.”
Jim Carrey
“When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
Johnny Depp
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
Audrey Hepburn
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
Maya Angelou
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
Maya Angelou
“My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.”
Maya Angelou
“Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.”
Warren Buffett
“One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.”
William James
“We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.”
William James
“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
Stephen King
“Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.”
Rush Limbaugh
“It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.”
Paul McCartney
“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”
Groucho Marx
“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
“What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
Steve Martin
“I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.”
Steve Martin
“I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.”
Steve Martin
“One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.”
Henry Miller
“The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.”
Marilyn Manson
“During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.”
Ron Paul
“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
Chuck Palahniuk