“- Tom Wingo: It's the Southern Way; when things get too painful, we either avoid them or we laugh.
- Susan Lownstein: When do you cry?
- Tom Wingo: We don't.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo
Barbra Streisand - Susan Lowenstein

“Chief says you make him laugh! You are like sissy girl!”

Maynard Eziashi - Ouda

“Don't you laugh, damn you! Don't you laugh! I say like yourselves scream in endless and unendurable agony! Their skin rotting and peeling! A fireball spinning in their screaming guts! I know! Oh yes, I know!”
Godfrey Quigley - Prison Chaplain

“You know what my philosophy of life is? That it's important to have some laughs, but you gotta suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point of life.”
Woody Allen - Danny Rose

“A laughing woman is disarmed, you can do what you like.”
Julien Carette - Marceau, le braconnier