Art Buchwald Quotes

My way of making people like me was to make 'em 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?

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.

I found out if you're a funny guy, a lot of people like you.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

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

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.

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

I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

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.

They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you're doing well.

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.

If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.