A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

If you want to make God laugh tell him about your plans.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Laughter is God's blessing.

People are funny and in the most tragic situations when comedy erupts from nowhere it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me and that is what people are like.

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

'Lucky' is for laughs and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

It's funny the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast loose and improvised and get somebody to laugh.

During the Great Depression when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'

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

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention ' it would be funny.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh that don't make you physically audibly make a noise but is something that is much more powerful than that.

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read easier to understand and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real and if you aren't funny they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film it was intelligent it was funny it took a laugh at itself.

Comedy is surprises so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh that's funny.

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny in fact the audiences in London Toronto LA New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.