Making People Laugh Quotes - Page 7

• I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

  Amanda Bynes

  People, Laughing, Trying

  "Fashion, food and fun are dear to Amanda Bynes". Interview with Tali Yahalom, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 22, 2007.

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• If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

  Spalding Gray

  Good Love, People, Laughing

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• My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

  Jon Lovitz

  Dad, People, Laughing

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• If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

  Eric Bana

  Character, People, Laughing

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• TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

  Jillian Bach

  People, Laughing, Seductive

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• I want to be able to make people laugh as hard as they possibly can, and I really think they need that.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "Andrew Dice Clay is back with 'no apologies'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. December 29, 2012.

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• I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.

  Tim Conway

  Kids, Emotional, People

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• When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

  Jeff Dunham

  College, Years, People

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

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• I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.

  Rob Delaney

  Laughing, People, Parent

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 1, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'd rather be the bloke laughing at other people. I don't need to make people laugh. I surround myself with funny people. I laugh all the time.

  Jennifer Garner

  People, Laughing, Needs

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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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• I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all artists are fighting. I want to hold the mirror up to society and help them see themselves more clearly. I also love just making people laugh.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Fighting, Artist, Mirrors

  Source: fierth.com

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• I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and misogynistic jokes that you have no idea what they mean, and you just memorize them because they have a very strong effect, they make people laugh in this kind of nervous, horrible way, and it's only later that you realize that you've got a head full of crap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Strong, Mean, Ideas

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes the oxygen level in the blood, and people are likelier to pass out at that point.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Oxygen, Blood

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Self, People

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most. I did local theater and plays in school. I think there was a sense of entertaining - being on the stage, making people laugh, making people cry - that I was drawn to. It was also one of those things like, "I can do this for a very long time."

  Milo Ventimiglia

  School, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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 like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• I could always make people laugh.

  Alonzo Bodden

  People, Laughing

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• I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "Zooey Deschanel Talks NEW GIRL Season 2, a Possible Crossover Episode with THE MINDY PROJECT, Voicing a Character on THE SIMPSONS and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 26, 2012.

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