I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.
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Related Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredicta... IKE TURNER Me lose brain? Uh, oh! Ha ha ha! Why I laugh? DAN CASTELLANETA I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't ... JESSE MCCARTNEY I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in l... BOB NEWHART The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterda... SENATOR LONG I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking... JIM DALE Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in t... BIL KEANE If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft.... OLGA KURYLENKO May your 'Ha Ha' moments be equivalent to your 'Ah Ha' moments. GLEN THOMAS PILLOW Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a g... CAROL BURNETT I want someone that I can have fun with and laugh with. I love to laugh, and I'm really sarcasti... MATT LANTER If you feel suddenly so anxious for laugh, then it's too late to find ha-ha in dictionary. TOBA BETA I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the... STEVE MARTIN By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha! GEORGE MICHAEL I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film wh... RACHEL MCADAMS It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don... JIMMY CARR My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across ... CHERYL LADD I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures... AUDREY HEPBURN Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People ... MINDY KALING The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I ju... BILL BURR I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My t... NIECY NASH I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me! ASAP ROCKY The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in a... LENNY BRUCE I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the begin... ADAM DEVINE Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!' WILLIAM BLAKE We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. ... ATTICUS SHAFFER From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find... MADELINE KAHN I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the m... DYLAN MORAN Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady a... TINA FEY Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha... NORM MACDONALD People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty o... MICHAEL PATRICK KING I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfor... WALTON GOGGINS I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh ev... LARRY WILMORE I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe... PAUL GASCOIGNE I put in 8.5 gallons, cost me $8.41. So that's the way I buy gas. ha, ha, ha. LARRY BEHRENDT If I don't laugh at least 20 times a day - it hasn't been a good day. JORDIN SPARKS It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad fol... PATTY GRIFFIN I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there... DARREN BOYD On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. I... YUVRAJ SINGH - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what wou... AMANDA SCHULL Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of c... BOB FOSSE I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometim... MARY STEENBURGEN What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've s... TREY SONGZ I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i... KATE CLINTON I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laug... JUSTIN CHATWIN Live today like it is your last day, Love with all your heart and soul, and Laugh till your belly ac... MARIE KATRA Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ... MARY ROACH We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to la... ALIA SHAWKAT I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for... JOE MENO I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull ... HILARY DUFF I think it's really important that I'm not the only model in the world that goes through per... GIGI HADID Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I... OLIVIER MARTINEZ For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world. BENNETT CERF My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew togethe... NOAM CHOMSKY Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every... LIBBA BRAY I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because th... STEVEN WRIGHT Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't... HUGH JACKMAN The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favou... LIONEL MESSI I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've... PAUL KANE With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing ... VANESSA LACHEY For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the word... RAIN PHOENIX I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything el... ALEXA VEGA It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that'... AIMEE MANN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were s... KAITLIN OLSON When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply a... MARIA SEMPLE I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to com... HELEN OYEYEMI If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, a... TAVI GEVINSON Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I ... NICOLAS CAGE Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the re... LIL WAYNE I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of peopl... DAVE CHAPPELLE One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a da... TODD ENGLISH I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and she... FAITH HILL I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's tru... ARUNDHATI ROY I have to give the credit to Mr. Volpe at the announcer?s table, he makes me laugh, gives me nicknam... BEN SCHWARTZ I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I thi... DAVID DUCHOVNY I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don... ARTHUR SMITH With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laug... BROOKE NEVIN I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smil... JESSE MCCARTNEY I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You... MAUREEN DOWD Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Th... ALLISON JANNEY I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spen... AARON RODGERS I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids an... MEGYN KELLY I would get my laugh insured! Because my laugh is very important: it's a million dollar laugh, s... KENDRA WILKINSON I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting... ZACK GREINKE Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least... FAITH PRINCE I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a... ARI GRAYNOR I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, ev... FAITH HILL Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag. JULIA ROBERTS I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do... DWAYNE JOHNSON Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love i... JENNIFER YUH NELSON There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. Y... DAVE CHAPPELLE The person I am every single day is the person that's growing and getting better. The more peopl... RUBY ROSE I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't for... TREVOR NOAH When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but... EMILY ROBISON My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. ... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
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