“The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.”
Colin Raye
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore
“If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- I've got to have them.”
Ken Dodd
“By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.”
Emmett Kelly
“Anyone who worked with Michael knows what a great room-jarring laugh he had. He was your best audience for anything remotely funny.”
Dan Daniel
