Goldie Hawn Quotes

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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

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

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.

Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.

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.

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

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.

Comedy is saving me.

There's nothing more gratifying than making someone laugh in today's time when everybody is grappling with some issue or the other.

I just find little things in life funny, it's why I giggle during my shows.

Comedy provides an escape from the horrors of real life.

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.

There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes … we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.

Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

At the time, it was a really funny joke [Fluffy] and I went back and forth with going against the joke or embrace it. I decided to embrace it and now we're talking about it, so it was a good call.