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.