Robin Williams Quotes

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.

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

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

True wit never made us laugh.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

You do some things and you just hope people will laugh.

Next to sex my favorite thing is laughing - it's part of sex. Make me laugh - I'll love you.

Random things make me laugh.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

It's extremely important for people to be informed and to be educated and to know what's going in their community and in their country, but every now and then you just kind of want to turn the brain off for a little bit and just laugh and be silly.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh