Ricky Skaggs Quotes

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible - abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

It's good to laugh!

I think that's my personality, to have a good laugh and not to take myself too seriously. And of course I have my things on the court but when I'm off the court I just like to have fun.

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

I believe that people just want to laugh and have a good time.

I loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

Laughter is the only currency I've really ever known. Ever since I was a boy.

Children are funny.

I remember listening to Eddie Murphy's Delirious on cassette tape - you might have to explain what that is to your younger demographic - with my father. I wanted to make people laugh that hard.

I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.