Owen Wilson Quotes

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.

The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.

I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

I love people who make me laugh!

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

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

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

I'm a very jovial guy. I like to laugh, and when things strike me as funny, I don't hide the fact that it's humorous to me. It almost doesn't matter where I'm at: I will burst out and laugh if it's funny to me.

I know what people like, and fortunately they seem to share my sense of humor.

Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

I was never a hammy child. But I could make 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?

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

. . . Cultivating good humor may be helpful in finding our own identity. Young people who are trying to find out who they really are often have concerns as to their ability to meet and cope with the challenges that confront them and that lie ahead. They will find that it is easier to ride over the bumps and come quickly to their own identity if they cultivate the good humor that comes naturally. It is important that we all learn to laugh at ourselves.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.