Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Through humor you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter no matter how painful your situation might be you can survive it.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life choose a sense of humor.

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

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times and I hope he'd say the same about me.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world to people of all faiths and backgrounds with his powerful belief in the human spirit.