Joan Rivers Quotes

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

I love making people laugh and by the way I still do that with the charitable efforts on my part because I believe that people need to laugh.

Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

I love doing [stand-up]. I love making people laugh no matter how. Whether it's a commercial, or a TV show, or a reality show, or a talk show, or a special, or a book. However I can make people laugh, that's what I want to do.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up.

My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

I'm here to make people laugh and help them forget their troubles, too! So I just try to bring heart and bring jokes!

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.

Chris Rock is a very funny man.

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.

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 dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.