#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."

"Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh."

"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."

"Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed."

"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."

"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."

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

"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."

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

"I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was."

"My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused."

"I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson."

"pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!"

"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."

"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."

"There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human."

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

"Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things."

"Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor."

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."