"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot"

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."

"After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done."

"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life."

"My empty waterdish mocks me."

"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."

"Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen."

"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian."