Fran Lebowitz Quotes

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

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

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.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

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

Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

I'm very interested in any script that makes me laugh.

That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing?

I am a complete sucker for funny films. There is something so therapeutic about laughing until you cry.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

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.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess.

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.