“- Count Leon d'Algout: Well, just smile.
- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: At what?
- Count Leon d'Algout: At anything. At the whole ridiculous spectacle of life. At people being so serious, taking themselves pompously, exaggerating their own importance. If you can't think of anything else to laugh at, you can laugh at you and me.”
Melvyn Douglas - Count Leon d'Algout
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.”
Natalie Portman - Sam

“Life's a piece of shit when you look at it. Life's a laugh and death's a joke; it's true.”
Eric Idle - Lead Singer Crucifee

“- Dr. Andrej Gorobec: You must always have faith, in yourself, in life.
- Princess Asa Vajda: In life? What is my life? Sadness and grief. Something that destroys itself day by day, and no one can rebuild it. Here is the very image of my life. Look at it. It's being consumed hour by hour like this garden, abandoned to a purposeless existence.”
John Richardson - Dr. Andrej Gorobec
Barbara Steele - Princess Asa Vajda

“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