Making People Laugh Quotes - Page 11

• I try to keeps things pretty light, try to make people laugh. I find it difficult to keep trying to promote myself. I know that's the whole point of it, to promote my music, but I like to use it to be funny and silly.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Silly, Light, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we all feel the same things most of the time, we just don't know how to put it into words. When I'm on stage, I say it. The truth makes people laugh.

  George Lopez

  Truth, Thinking, People

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• People say I try to be the centre of attention, but I think I just try to make people laugh.

  Jack P. Shepherd

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "Interrogation: Jack P Shepherd". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, "This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me."

  Jenny Slate

  People, Laughing, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I've seen comedians make people laugh by being either really dark and sad and touching, or really strange and bizarre and creepy. You can take the format and do whatever you want with it, and that seemed interesting to me.

  Amy Seimetz

  Dark, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.

  Ron White

  Ideas, People, Laughing

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• Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.

  Lenny Bruce

  Country, Space, People

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.

  Wyck Godfrey

  Kids, People, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

  Eric Stoltz

  Growing Up, Silly, Mean

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• Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

  John C. Reilly

  People, Laughing, Mind

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 16, 2010.

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• There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

  Bob Newhart

  People, Laughing, Sound

  "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• I was never a hammy child. But I could make people laugh.

  Kristen Bell

  Children, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

  Kathy Griffin

  Artist, People, Laughing

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• To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.

  Vir Das

  People, Laughing, Different

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• I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

  Paul Lynde

  Happiness, Laughter, People

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• 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

  School, People, Laughing

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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• I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Views, People

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• Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

  Steven Wright

  Kids, People, Laughing

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• So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh.

  Ilona Andrews

  People, Laughing, Confusing

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.86, Penguin

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• I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

  Michael Caine

  Laughter, People, Laughing

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• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  Malin Akerman

  Silly, Self, People

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• If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fall, White, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.47, Melville House

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• My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

  Kristen Johnston

  Cheerleading, People, Laughing

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• You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pay your house payment. That's a tough crowd.

  Sam Kinison

  Morning, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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