Happiness Quote by Jami Gertz

Gertz is selling a survival skill that doesn’t look like grit because it sounds like fun. “If you can laugh, you can get through it” frames humor as a kind of household technology: cheap, repeatable, and available even when everything else feels out of reach. It’s also a quiet refusal of the cultural script that says “real” strength has to look solemn. The line doesn’t deny hardship; it sidesteps the performance of suffering.

The second sentence is the tell. “In our house” shrinks the grand thesis down to a practiced ritual, implying this isn’t an inspirational poster but a family policy. Laughter becomes infrastructure: how you defuse tension, keep conflict from calcifying, and remind everyone that you’re still on the same team. There’s class and celebrity subtext here, too. A famous person insisting they “laugh a lot” is a way of reclaiming normalcy, projecting warmth in a world that often reads wealth as insulation and fame as emotional distance. It’s also brand management in the best sense: not a red-carpet persona, but an ethos.

As an actress, Gertz understands timing, release, the strategic pause before the punchline. That’s what makes the quote work: it treats laughter not as denial but as editing. You can’t control the plot, but you can control the tone. And tone, in a household, is often the difference between enduring a bad chapter and being defined by it.