Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.

Comedy is saving me.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

I think our main priority is to make people happy and try to take them out of all that for a second.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

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

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, 'Oh my God, how girls get ready? This is hilarious. I love this; I'm forgetting about all my problems.'

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.