Making People Laugh Quotes - Page 7

• Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.

  Michael Frayn

  Simple, Thinking, Play

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• Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

  W. C. Fields

  Business, People, Laughing

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• I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

  Rob Delaney

  Kids, Thinking, Laughing

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• When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

  Trey Parker

  Sweet, Mean, People

  "What Happens When Bad Boys Grow Up?" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 22, 2011.

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• The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

  Carl Reiner

  Truth, People, Laughing

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• Making people laugh is the greatest experience.

  Rebecca Romijn

  People, Laughing

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• It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

  Joan Allen

  People, Laughing, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

  Rob Delaney

  People, Laughing, Want

  "Rob Delaney: 'Twitter has rocketed me to a whole new level of standup'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2012.

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• People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

  Lorne Michaels

  Zoos, People, Laughing

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• What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

  William Zinsser

  Funny, Work, Humor

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• A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Stupid, Night

  "Duma Key". Book by Stephen King, January 22, 2008.

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• When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

  Todd Solondz

  Happiness, Laughter, People

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

  Carlos Mencia

  Hurt, Laughter, Cancer

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• I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I said, I wanna be a comedian, I wanna get good.' You're not good in the beginning. You're still trying to figure out what the things are that you are going to talk about, what your angle is going to be and there's a lot of trial and error. I just never gave up and that was the beginning of my career. Just experimenting, trying it out and falling in love with it.

  Bill Bellamy

  Falling In Love, College, Thinking

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• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.

  Arj Barker

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

  Ridley Scott

  Nice, People, Laughing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.

  Melissa Rivers

  Mother, People, Laughing

  "Joan Rivers, Comedian and TV Host, Dies at 81" by Carmel Dagan and Pat Saperstein, variety.com. September 4, 2014.

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• Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.

  Shomei Tomatsu

  Eye, Doctors, People

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• I stand behind what I say. If I don't want it to be out there then I won't say it. I am not out to hurt somebody. I am out to call attention to certain things but I am also out to make people laugh with my delivery and style of bluntness.

  Michelle Visage

  Hurt, People, Laughing

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I love making people laugh.

  Matthew Lewis

  People, Laughing, Love Making

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that.

  Sharon Stone

  People, Laughing, Knows

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• Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great, but I started to think that people will soon get bored from it. I have said to myself: "If you are going to go on being a superstar, you have to sing!"

  Verka Serduchka

  Thinking, Bored, People

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I could always make people laugh.

  Alonzo Bodden

  People, Laughing

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