You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.