Carrie Coon

There's this thing in TV that I find hysterical where the writers and creators will ask us if you want to know what happens to your character or if you want to experience it episode by episode. In the theatre, we always know the ending; we always know where the character is going.

American Actress

Rachel Cusk

There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

Canadian Novelist

Constance Wu

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.

Jasmine Guinness

I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

Irish Designer

Briga Heelan

We have home videos that are really great tape on my parents being hysterical. So I think I always knew that my parents were funny, so I think that I always felt comfortable using comedy in my real life.

Laura Dern

Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.

Elizabeth Kostova

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

American Author

Tamsin Greig

Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

English Actress

Roger Moore

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

English Actor

Diana Rigg

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

British Actress

Used to describe moments of extreme emotions that are hard to control.

Emotion Intensity

Often used when there's a strong negative reaction to distressing events.

Negative Situations

While it describes excessive emotion, it's not typically used as an insult.

Not Insulting

Refers to something so funny that it causes a strong, often loud, laugh.

Highly Amusing

A casual way to compliment someone's sense of humor or a funny situation.

Informal Praise

Be cautious, as it can exaggerate how funny something actually is.

Exaggeration Caution

A clinical word used in psychology and psychiatry for certain disorders.

Medical Term

Refers to serious medical conditions; should be used with sensitivity.

Serious Condition

Historically linked to 'hysteria,' a term not commonly used anymore in medicine.

Historic Usage

 that there could actually be outbreaks of violence in the US depending on how things turn out. Should we be worried about that, or do you really think things have shifted? No, we should be worried. We should be aware of two things. First of all, don't be hysterical. We are not back in the First World War yet.

Nationalism vs....

 there is no correlation between quality and enjoyment in wine, except when you tell the people how expensive it is, in which case they tend to enjoy the more expensive stuff more. So drink your wine blind in the future. But this is both hysterically funny -- but I think an important philosophical point,

Life lessons from an ad...

 can't even compare this to everyone's favorite caffeinated beverage hysterically mine coffee no a nice iced coffee is amazing a hot coffee I'll take one of those too but the real problem here is when your hot coffee has gone cold and you have this really awkward cold cup of coffee in which you know you

Technology worth loving...

 She'd just bought a new address book, and she'd spent the morning filling in her many contacts, but then she'd been left staring at that empty blank that comes after the words "In case of emergency, please call ..." She was nearly hysterical when she looked at me and said,

Why 30 is not the new 20...

 But my clearest and sharpest memory of my auntie, is also one of my first memories of life at all. I remember her being beaten and slapped by another member of my family. I remember screaming hysterically and wanting it to stop, as I did every single time it happened,

Noy Thrupkaew: Human...

 that the blood has left my had been filling up my lungs and I was having a very hard time breathing but now it's kind of gone into the stretcher and I said is there anything I can do to help and the the nurse kind of had a hysterical laugh and and I'm turning my

A story about knots and...

 I didn't get the part. Sherry Brown got the part. I went racing to the head of the theater department crying hysterically, like someone shot my cat, to ask her why, and she said it was because they didn't think I could do the stunts.

I got 99 problems......

 said that it is on three place so you never know it might make it into one of our blooper reels one day me trying to get the words we'll see you after the break out of while I was giggling hysterically and I started to laugh so

Safari Live - Day 300 PIPE...

 When I heard this, I just recalled the same incident that happened to me. I was devastated. I found myself in the same hysterical state I was outside of that theater. For everybody around me, life moved on.

My Long Walk Across...

 could be the cheats are chattering to one another his turn a strange noise apologies and VM quite hysterically said that the his

Hysterical