Gabrielle Union Quotes

You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

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

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

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

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

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

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that.

Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.

I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh.