Del Close Quotes

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. "I like her, Lord Rahl. You may keep her.

People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.

My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

I keep on repeating something told to me by an American psychologist: "When you are making a joke about someone and you are the only one to laugh, it is not a joke. It is a joke only for yourself." If people are making a joke they have the right to laugh at me but I will ignore them. Ignoring doesn't mean that you don't understand. You understand it so much that you don't want to react.

People who can make you laugh can make you cry.

It's much more fun to share and laugh at the bad times and the frustrations. I find you get a much deeper connection with the audience that way.

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.