I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.

I like making people laugh, so drama was never a big leap for me.

To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.

Creating content to make people smile and laugh, that's what makes me happy.

People doing rhymes that are nonsense - nothing can make me laugh like that.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

People noticed me in 'Krrish,' and my seven-year-old daughter said I made her laugh.

I try to laugh as much as possible and enjoy the company of people who can make me laugh.

Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.

My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me.

I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.

I was a 'bathroom actor' and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions.

I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh.

I was kind of shy as a lad, and a lot of things that made me laugh, I found, did not make other people laugh.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

I'm very lucky to be a comedian, and I feel privileged that people come to see me in the expectation that I will make them laugh.

It always makes me laugh to think that I get to sit around and chat with people like Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi and get paid for it.

I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke; people have seen that in me.

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

A lot of people have been very dismissive of me. I'm hardly the darling of the NME. It used to get me down a bit, but you reach a point where you can laugh it off.

There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

I never craved having people leave a show saying, 'He's really intelligent, isn't he?' I didn't watch Tommy Cooper and think, 'Oh, he's so bright.' He just made me laugh.

When people told me that 'Polladhavan' was a remake of 'Bicycle Thieves,' I wanted to laugh because comparing 'Polladhavan' to 'Bicycle Thieves' is a disgrace to the latter.

I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh.

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

Everybody remembers 'Just Shoot Me,' and I'm very proud of that. It's still on TV, and people still catch it and laugh about it, and I personally have wonderful, wonderful memories working with those people.

I've been lucky enough to do this fantastic job now for more than 50 years. To make people laugh, to entertain, create a wide range of emotions - it has always been a tremendous thrill for me, and it still is.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

I have two brothers, and we used to always laugh at oblivious people. People who are so cocky and full of themselves that they just don't realize how stupid they are. And those kind of idiots really make me laugh.

If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that seems thin for me. That has a place - I don't think it should stop happening - but for me, I don't know. I just don't.

I've had so many people say stuff to me. I meet them, have a chat for five minutes and they think they can say what they like. I used to laugh it off, but now I think 'why do you think you can say that to me? You don't know me.'

I got to a point where I wanted to have some dignity in what I'm saying onstage. I want people to hear what I'm saying, regardless of whether or not it gets a laugh. That became a lot more rewarding than straight acting could ever be for me.

I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.

A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.

I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

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