#laugh

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#laughter #met #needs #other #person

I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#audience #gallery #get #i #immediate

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#cent #deserve #funny #funny stuff #jokes

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#doubt #fact #few #had #in fact

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#came #captain #doing #eight #everyone

When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#applauded #decision #first #heartily #humour

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#asked #before #came #case #died

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#being #brian #cool #fever #god

I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur. ↗

— Dominique Swain

#i #just #should #slaughtered #their

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. ↗

— Tacitus

#empire #make #peace #plunder #slaughter