Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.
I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.
It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.
There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.
When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.
I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.
I was always making my friends laugh but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.
Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.
Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.
To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.
Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that.
Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud that they will hit you with a laugh that will scare you stiff and yet give you energy. Chennaiites give me the loudest laughs; it's the coolest crowd to perform for.
Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.
I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.
I have an extra set of eyelashes because you never know. I could cry or laugh, or it could be windy, and I'll need a standby pair.
I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.
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