Lorrie Moore Quotes

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.

Making people laugh was automatic.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

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 always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

I like to be funny and make a girl laugh.

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

I like jokes where people don't stop laughing.

Making people laugh is the only thing I've ever done naturally.

It's not at all easy to make people laugh. Kudos to those who can do it so well.

Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We'd sit around the dinner table and try to one-up each other. It sometimes ended in tears, but usually in laughter.

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

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.

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.

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.