"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."

"My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish."

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."

"Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment."

"What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health."

"There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet."

"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed."