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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.

I was not scared at all.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.