When you work crazy TV hours, you got to have a good sense of humor.

Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

Humor is a part of spirituality.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

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

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

I guess I've kind of recognized what my worth is and what my specific brand of humor is. And that's not necessarily being the guy who's super witty and saying a joke every second. I'm the guy who you throw in a bizarre scenario, and I'll play it as real as possible.

I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

You don't necessarily equate me with humor!

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

I think 'Piranha' won't be in the guilty-pleasure category, because it's gonna be - well, yeah, maybe for some people. From what I've seen, it has a sense of humor about itself, and it's also really scary and really, really violent. I would call it a popcorn movie from the planet Popcorn.

My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

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

Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that's how you deal with anything.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On Harvard Time,' which was a student TV show trying to be 'The Daily Show.' And I wrote a humor column for 'The Crimson' starting my sophomore year.

My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.