Mariska Hargitay Quotes

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.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.

I love people who make me laugh!

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.

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

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

I believe you can joke about anything.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.

Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

People are the same wherever you go. And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t.

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

I'm a goofy girl. I like to laugh and I like to make other people laugh.

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.

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

People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.