Jessica Williams Quotes

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.

It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.

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

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

People who can make you laugh can make you cry.

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

Laugh every day as much as you can.

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

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.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.