"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."

"A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey."

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

"There's no jealousy in the grave."

"[Advise] the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish -- that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates."

"People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves."

"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."