Making People Laugh Quotes - Page 5

• I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

  Doris Day

  Beautiful, Fun, Make Others Happy

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• But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

  Carol Burnett

  People, Laughing, Noses

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• I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.

  Chris Tucker

  Light, Laughing, People

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.

  Berry Gordy

  Song, Writing, People

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• I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

  Sharon Horgan

  People, Laughing, Want

  "The funniest woman you've never heard of" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2007.

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• I love being able to make people laugh.

  Judith Light

  Love, People, Laughing

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• I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

  Roseanne Barr

  People, Laughing, Comic

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• I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.

  Lusia Strus

  People, Laughing, Attention

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• Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

  Jenna Elfman

  People, Laughing, Challenges

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

  Paul Merton

  Cheating, Laughter, People

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• It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Laughing, Terrible

  "That's Not Funny, That's C.K." by Joel Lovell, www.gq.com. August 2, 2011.

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• I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the best people out there, who bring the best out of me.

  Chris Tucker

  Mean, People, Laughing

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• I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.

  Dave Barry

  Atheist, Dad, People

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• There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, People, Laughing

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

  Buddy Hackett

  Cocky, Ninety Nine, Voice

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• The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

  Bill Hicks

  Light, Laughing, People

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• I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Writing, Heart

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• I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Fashion, People, Laughing

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• So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical activity that gets me out of my head and into my body. I'm constantly inspired by my surroundings and people I see that are "killing it."

  Xosha Roquemore

  Laughing, People, Dancing

  "The Mindy Project’s Xosha Roquemore: Just Being Herself". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

  Dick Gregory

  People, Laughing, Very Good

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• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Lying, Passion

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.527, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Team, Humorous, Laughing

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I've been super lucky in that I've either been in or helped create situations where I do what I want. I'm super lucky. I get to do what I want and create art and make people laugh, and it's really fun.

  Paul Reubens

  Art, Fun, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

  Debra Winger

  Mean, People, Laughing

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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