Lisa Hanawalt Quotes

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

Comedy's my outlet for my ridiculous emotions.

I tried to walk away from standup, but it's been my therapy - my way of expressing anger, disappointments, and fears and celebrating my hopes. It helps to regulate my thought process.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

Doing funny roles is something I enjoy as I am like that in my personal life.

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.

Being funny is very complex.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

Comedy gigs are there because you are all in acceptance that the world is not the way it should be. You have to give yourself a break; otherwise, you would sit crying in a darkened room.

I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.