Spontaneous Laughter Quotes

It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real life that's allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that's what does happen in life.

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

I find it easier to cry than I do to laugh convincingly. It's incredibly hard to pull off a laugh that feels natural take after take after take, that feels real. You can tell a fake laugh the minute you hear it, and that's something I really struggle with more than producing tears.

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.

When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together...If you are still thinking. laughter will be just so-so...It will be a crippled laughter.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off and make up my own questions.

Laughter is the music of life.

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

Generally I know that we've hit on a good idea if there's a moment where I'm going "HA HA HA!" because that's usually my starting point, me laughing.

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

Sometimes it takes you two or three seconds to get your head round a joke and laugh at it. With a snot-bubble laugh, it comes instinctively - almost in spite of yourself. It's caused by something silly - like when a little kid says something unexpectedly bizarre.

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me.