Chris Rock Quotes

What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.

And usually I'm not watching the screen. I'm kind of sitting and looking off to the side, spying on people to see what they react to' cause it's - as Joe Ranft used to say, you know, animation is like telling a joke and waiting for three years to see if anyone laughs

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

I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh.

My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

I'm a goofy girl. I like to laugh and I like to make other people laugh.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

You do some things and you just hope people will laugh.

I love people who make me laugh!

I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes. I see when people go off their material and it's actually happening in front of you and that kind of stuff excites me.

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

People do need a social license to go, "Ha ha ha," and have a good time. It's a strange thing. There's a lot of social ritual around comedy and laughter. It's a bonding experience for groups, but nobody can tell you much about how funny somebody is. Sometimes people just need to be in a group and be laughing together, just like they need to be in a group in watching some really terrifying film.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

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

With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.