Pastoral Resources

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

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

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.