Gillian Jacobs Quotes

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

If you can laugh, you can get through it. In our house, we laugh a lot.

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Laughter survives... it has to survive.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.