“- 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

“Life is nothing but the occasional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.”
Billy Crudup - Henry

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

“- Guy Fleegman: I'm just a glorified extra, Fred. I'm a dead man anyway. If I'm gonna die, I'd rather go out a hero than a coward.
- Fred Kwan: Guy, Guy, maybe you're the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?
- Guy Fleegman: Plucky?”
Sam Rockwell - Guy Fleegman
Tony Shalhoub - Fred Kwan

“- James Conway: Oh, hey, Henry, Henry! Here's an arm!
- Henry Hill: Very funny, guys.
- James Conway: Here's a leg!
- Tommy DeVito: Here's a wing!
[laughs]
- Tommy DeVito: Hey, what do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or ya still go for the old hearts and lungs?”

Robert De Niro - James Conway
Ray Liotta - Henry Hill
Joe Pesci - Tommy DeVito