Terry Gilliam Quotes

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who 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.

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.

I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling?

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

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

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.

I love people who make me laugh!

A good time for laughing is when you can.

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

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

I've got a great sense of humor.

I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.