Lake Bell Quotes

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

I think in the world we need more comedy. I wish so much that we could embrace that side of us more. I love to escape through watching comedy, and I wish for more of that in the future.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

I think my books are lighter and funnier than some of the big series out there. You may not walk away from my books having learned a life-altering lesson, but you will feel better for having laughed for a few hours. It's just a different style of writing.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.

George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.

Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.

People need to laugh and turn their brains off.

I love Hallmark movies because they make movies that you don't see anymore... and at a time when there is so much evil in the world, it's kind of nice to be able to retreat to something like a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.

All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live within my pain, or live within my sadness, I try to be funny and look at things with a funny view.

I've done two Shakespeare tragedies, so I'd desperately like to do comedy. It would be nice not to die.

You don't really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games.

I am a complete sucker for funny films. There is something so therapeutic about laughing until you cry.

Comedy gigs are there because you are all in acceptance that the world is not the way it should be. You have to give yourself a break; otherwise, you would sit crying in a darkened room.

I really like dumb romantic comedies; that's the way I can turn my brain off and let go.

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.

Mindless films are usually far more entertaining because the audience just comes for a laugh.