“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”

“The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.”

“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.”

“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”

“The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.”

“I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.”

“I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.”

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?”

“If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.”

“I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.”

“Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.”

“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”

“I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.”

“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.”

“When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.”

“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”

“Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.”

“There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.”

“I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'”

“I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.”