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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.
It’s self-effacing, it’s hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
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.
I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don’t think I’m capable of that.
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.
And you know, whether it’s drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It’s just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that’s where the humor comes from. So it’s not that difficult to cross over.
When a chick has a sense of humor, there’s nothing more attractive.
The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
I don’t have a very quick sense of humor.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?