Mark Waters Quotes

I love 'Mean Girls.' I held out on watching it for a long time, but I'm so glad I finally did. Tina Fey is brilliant.

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.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time - of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

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.

Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

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.

Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.

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

I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Next to sex my favorite thing is laughing - it's part of sex. Make me laugh - I'll love you.

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.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

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.

Random things make me laugh.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.

It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."

What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond).