"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."

"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."

"Thinking evil is making evil."

"Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure."

"Now everyone must do after his kind, be he asp or angle."

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

"His flight was madness: when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors."