“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”
Bob Newhart

“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov

“I never had an ambition higher than to make people laugh. It's the easiest thing in the world to make them cry.”
Eddie Cantor

“I know Americans better than people of any other country and by knowing them better I think I know what they laugh at and what should be laughed at.”
Frank Capra

“Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list.”
Hank Azaria