#Situation

"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them."

"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences."

"By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation."

"We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality."

"Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens."

"If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ..."

"My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation."

"When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God."

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."

"I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy."

"You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it."

"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."

"Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation."

"A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader."

"'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me."

"Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be."

"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."

"One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation."

"Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be."

"When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust."