"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."

"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."

"That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us."

"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."

"Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own."

"To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small."