"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."

"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one"

"It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings."

"You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her."

"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."

"A light heart lives long."

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."