#Laugh

"I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that."

"'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh."

"The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."

"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow."

"Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open."

"But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death."

"Transform into your dream."

"I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair."

"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance."

"My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry."

"I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there."

"Whatever you do, let it be lovely."

"I remember I laughed so hard I cried. But my response was half appropriate, because I was at a funeral."

"'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh."

"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."

"In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh."

"In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately."

"The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune."

"In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first."