Bette Midler Quotes

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

I love to entertain and make people laugh.

I just want to be known as a clown because to me, that's the height of my profession. It means you can do everything - sing, dance and, above all, make people laugh.

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

Honestly, I just want to keep people awake. Or at least give you one joke to go to bed with.

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.

I'm here to make people laugh and help them forget their troubles, too! So I just try to bring heart and bring jokes!

I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.

I just want to keep people entertained.

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

All the world loves a clown.

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right.