"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."

"Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."